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Emptying My Head: Bipolar Depression, A Tale of Two People

This mental health recovery story focuses on Erica’s journey through an abusive childhood, a diagnosis of bipolar depression and the feeling of being misunderstood, by other and by herself. Her bipolar depression and anger left Erica confused, when she found therapy she was able to see what was beneath her rage and come through to the other side. Erica realized that her anger masked a deep sadness, as she worked with a counselor she found a way to explore her past and understand her present. Learn more about Erica’s journey!

Battling Depression: Fighting the Legion of Gloom

by Shawn Reynolds

If you think only a super-human force can successfully battle depression, then you don’t know Shawn Reynolds, comic book aficianado and mental health superhero in his own right.

How Can Trauma, Depression, and Panic Help you Hold On and Let Go?

by Jenna Kohler

Jenna Kohler’s life has been impacted by her boyfriend’s suicide, the Boston Marathon bombing, and other events that have shaped her exposure to depression and trauma.

Raised by a Broken Woman: Battling Depression and Anxiety Without Parental Support

by Alicia McClendon

A never-ending cycle: Broken souls having children only for those children to be shattered souls themselves. Because I know that millions experience this, I want to share my story in order to change a life or even save one.

Dancing Away Depression

by C. Christine Miller

it has been a very long time since I have been out dancing. I am much too depressed and the pain is overwhelming; however, there came a meeting of my many minds and the solution was couch dancing. LOL, you say? I would be willing to bet you have never tried it!

Hope amidst the Hopelessness of Depression

by Ainsley McWha

I had always been a sullen, solitary girl, sensitive and moody, prone to uncontrollable emotional outbursts. But the sadness I felt that winter was deeper, the outbursts more frequent, intense, and all-consuming.

My Whirlwind Brain; Living with Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and Anxiety

by Stacey Praninskas

I’m a thirty-seven-year-old woman who was diagnosed with bipolar, depression and anxiety at the age of twenty-two. As I look back on my life I can remember feeling anxious throughout my childhood. I grew up in a good home with loving parents, but my anxiety persisted.

Is Mental Illness Your Rabbit, Too? Living with Anxiety and Depression

by Alexandra Nichipor

Not hallucinations, but rather some of the smaller and fuzzier denizens native to Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is no metaphor more fitting for the person I was back then: twitchy, easily startled, a propensity to run scared from others. I had lost all the avenues I’d had to hide from depression and anxiety, and they closed in like a pair of gangsters in an alleyway.

Depression, Anxiety, and Panic Disorder: From Daunted to Driven

by Gianna Santoro

I felt like a complete failure. I had always been able to handle everything without an issue. But at first, navigating depression was another story.

My Five Stages of Depression

by Ellen Sue Spicer-Jacobson

The Five Stages of Mourning is a perfect template for my own Five Stages of Depression: Anger, Anxiety/Exhaustion, Depression, Treatment, and Recovery.

Call Out Each Cloud by its Silver Lining: Life with Depression & Anxiety in India

by Sanjukta Chauhan

Whenever I’d gone through stages of major depression or anxiety as a young teenager, all I’d hear was that I was stupid, lazy, and unambitious. Imagine being judged by your symptoms and not by your illness.

How Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals Helped Me Cope with my Depression and Suicidal Thoughts

by Joyline Maenzanise

I am determined to love and live intensely and fearlessly because, as Audre Lorde said, betraying myself into silence will not protect me.

Treatment Resistant Depression: My Experience with Countless Interventions

by Risa Sugarman

I endured this routine for so long: try a new medication to alleviate my treatment resistant depression and either feel horrible or feel absolutely nothing.

Repairing a Beautiful Life Damaged by Depression

by Morgan Meredith

When I finally saw a psychiatrist, she was surprised that I was still alive, having been afflicted with depression for so long without medical treatment.

Acceptance: How One Friend Helped Me Get Help for Depression and Anxiety on my Own Terms

by Sheila O'Donnell

As I battle with depression, anxiety, and PTSD, it has always been far easier for me to support others with mental health struggles than to admit my own.

Laces Out: Chokeslammed by Suicidal Thoughts & Depression

by Greyson "Haji P." Davis

With depression, I had suicidal thoughts. Not because I wanted to kill myself, but because the idea of being “done” felt like serenity.

I’m Just Tired: When You Dismiss Depression

by Kathryn Rose Wood

“I can’t explain where I’ve been, and though everyone wants to understand, it doesn’t mean they comprehend. They can’t grasp where I am.” – Kathryn Rose Wood

5 Depression Twitter Accounts for Community, Resources, and Encouragement

by Leah Alexandra Goldstein

This installment of our mental health resources column focuses on depression Twitter accounts including DBSA, Sad Girls Club, Heads Up Guys, Natasha Tracy, and Depression Notes.

Glowing on the Outside; Crumbling Inside – Depression, Anxiety and Motherhood

by Rebecca Fox Starr

I failed the postpartum screening given, as protocol, by the hospital, and yet they sent me home.

Get Used to Life Without Me: A Dispassionate Road to Suicide with Depression

by Eliana Osborn

I crossed seamlessly from ambivalence and malaise into an area I’d never been before: actively planning suicide.

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