To anyone on the outside looking in, Kevin Breel was a joyful and funny guy. In his TedTalk entitled “Confessions of a Depressed Comic”, he…
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…
In this TedTalk, Andrew Solomon speaks about the thoughts and experiences he had while facing depression, and how this motivated him to interview others with…
“Out of the Darkness” is one of the many written pieces featured in a book called FASCInATE – Friends of Alma St Centre Inspiring Action…
A friend of mine once told me that she was the product of her mother’s rape. Staring at her reflection in the mirror, she wondered…
“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…
“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 “The Story of Ryan Anderson”, NBA star Ryan Anderson, talks candidly about losing his girlfriend to suicide in 2013. In the video, he discusses…
In “Explaining Depression to My Mother” Sabrina Benaim uses the power of spoken word to communicate with her mother, revealing her struggle with mental illness–specifically,…
