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Stories, information and advice by and for people with a mental illness, including coping tips, inspiration and the very real experiences of people with various mental illnesses.

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3 Ways I Gained Clarity While Job Searching With Bipolar Disorder

Sinclair Ceasar III

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How I Am Getting Back Lost Time In My Relationships Affected By Generational Trauma

Yujia Ding

What It’s Like Being Constantly Haunted by the Ghosts of My Trauma

Polly Kaitlyn Long

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We Need to Talk About the 'Unthinkable'

Louise Steel

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How I Learned to Live With Depression

S. Kauderer

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How It Feels to Be 'In Remission' From Depression

Caiti Gearsbeck

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How I Felt Being Cleared to Work Again After a Manic Episode

Sinclair Ceasar III

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Death of 'The Wire' Actor Michael K. Williams Is a Symptom of Community Trauma

Amanda Lynch

Meet My Anti-Superpower: ‘Quiet’ Borderline Personality Disorder

Jamie Mitchell

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Why Taking Antipsychotics to Survive Is the Hardest Pill to Swallow

Madeline Robson

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Why We Need to Talk About ‘Quiet’ Suicide Attempts

Kelly Douglas

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Bipolar Disorder Makes Me Fear Being Alone, but Then I Got COVID-19

Marie Minerva Estela

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The Texas Abortion Law Would Have Forced Me to Have My Father’s Baby

Maya Lorde

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Looking Back on 31 Years After My Borderline Diagnosis

Andrea Rosenhaft

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5 Positive Traits I Attribute to My Borderline Personality Disorder

Kelly M.

It's Time We Truly Recognize Emotional and Mental Abuse as Trauma

Bee Writer

What It’s Like Navigating PTSD Triggers While Dating

Lydia Joy Launderville

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What Naomi Osaka Taught Me About Burnout

Jae Cobb

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The 'Game Changer' in Accepting My Larger Body Size in Eating Disorder Recovery

Becca R.

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Why It’s Hard for Me to Speak Kindly to Myself

Becca R.

How I Approach the Jewish New Year as Someone With OCD

Morgan Rondinelli

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Aphantasia: How Being Unable to Visualize Anything Affects My Mental Health

B.L. Acker

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How Fatphobia and the Focus on 'Childhood Obesity' Affected Me

Ashley Nestler MSW

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Coping as an Adult When Childhood Trauma Made You Suppress Emotions

Epiphany Party

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Facing the Aftermath of Spending Too Much Money While Manic

Janet Coburn

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I Left My Job, and My Boss Left My Mental Health Destroyed

Amanda Dodson Gremillion

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Why Childhood Trauma Caused Me to Seek Emotionally Unavailable Partners

Coco Densmore

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When OCD Is the Carnival Ride That Never Stops Spinning

Christina Lisk

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COVID-19 Should Be Normalizing Mental Health Conversations

Karla Culbertson

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The Reality of Living With Chronic Mental Illness

V.C. Turner

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