In this short visual lecture, Dr. Mike Evans gives his two-minute advice for getting through a difficult day or week. Evans recommends engaging in simple…
“What’s eating you alive, might help you to survive” The Ted Leo and the Pharmacists song “Me and Mia” describes what it’s like to live…
Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905 – 2004) was an American poet who is recognized for her first and perhaps only poem “Do Not Stand at My…
“I Wanna Get Better”, performed by The Bleachers, is a song about singer Jack Antonoff’s personal experiences with grief, depression, and renewal. Through lyrics like, “I…
The song “Everything is Alright” by Motion City Soundtrack documents frontman Justin Pierre’s experience with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Pierre recounts cleaning his…
After 17 years of silence, Sue Klebold recounts that fateful day in Littleton, Colorado when her son Dylan and his friend Eric Harris committed one…
“I have stage 3 cancer; my friend has stage 1—which is like a pimple.” On her personal blog, Debbie Woodbury, a woman diagnosed with Stage…
Performing for Toronto during the semi-finals at the 2014 National Poetry Slam, Sabrina Benaim shares her raw experience with depression, disclosing what she has endured…
Imagine looking in the mirror and seeing unsightly physical flaws and defects, even if they aren’t real. That’s the type of harrowing symptom pronounced in…
Anna R. was having an ultrasound, prepared to see her baby for the first time. When she asked the technician what the sex of the…
