In his poem, ‘Alone’, Edgar Allen Poe explores his feelings of solitude and isolation. Edgar Allen Poe has been known to suffer from feelings of…
Rachel McKibbens writes a personal essay on her experience with bipolar disorder and that by denying that she had a problem, her mental condition worsened…
On May 15th 2015, a federal jury condemned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in killing four people and injuring hundreds in the Boston…
Rachel, a blogger on time-to-change.org, suffers from an unnamed mental illness. She wrote this poem in an effort to speak to the fear, discrimination, and…
“Out of the Darkness” is one of the many written pieces featured in a book called FASCInATE – Friends of Alma St Centre Inspiring Action…
“One Day at a Time” is a song by The Eagles. The band’s lead singer, Joe Walsh, wrote the lyrics to explain his struggle with…
In his TedTalk entitled “The Bridge Between Suicide and Life” Kevin Briggs speaks about his experience patrolling the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, a…
“The Black Pit” is one of the many written pieces featured in a book called FASCInATE – Friends of Alma St Centre Inspiring Action Towards…
“Hurt”, by Nine Inch Nails describes band member and lead vocalist Trent Reznor’s struggle with self-harm, heroin addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts. He uses writing…
In her TedTalk entitled “What’s so Funny About Mental Illness?”, Ruby Wax, a comedian diagnosed with clinical depression, explains how she uses comedy to deal…
