Individuals open up in a short film about their early experiences with therapy: first feeling trepidation or reluctance, and then feeling relief or catharsis. In…
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…
The effects of schizophrenia are profound. Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and social withdrawal, the disorder has no known cure. The introduction of antipsychotic medications in…
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…
“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 song ‘Too Much On My Mind’ was written by Ray Davies in 1966 and performed by The Kinks. The lyrics describe the very real…
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,…
Nearly nine of every ten adults in the United States will gamble recreationally at some point in their lives. But for around two percent of…
