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I Suppressed Everything – A Story of Abuse and Bipolar

This mental recovery story focuses on Lisa’s journey of childhood trauma, abuse and eventually her diagnosis of bipolar. After years of physical, sexual and mental abuse, Lisa thought she had found stability, until her mania set in followed by severe depression. Lisa’s life felt like it was spinning out. Her physical, sexual and mental abuse dictated her life, her mania felt out of control, how Lisa came to terms with her diagnosis of bipolar and past trauma and found a way to heal. With time and therapy Lisa found ways to cope. Read more about Lisa’s journey!

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

by Erica Scott-Hruza

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!

When You’re Depressed and Doctors Aren’t Great, What Do You Do?

by Joellen Notte

JoEllen Notte, a sex educator who focuses on mental health, delves into her experiences as a woman who is depressed navigating a health system that often does not know how to respond.

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.

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!

The Narrow Ledge of Half-Health; My Life with Schizophrenia

by Milly Thiringer

“You need to accept the fact that schizophrenia is a chronic condition. You will have it for the rest of your life, so you need to start focusing on managing your symptoms.” When I heard it put so plainly, I sighed in despair.

A Mom with PTSD: Getting Closer to Realizing My Dreams

by Emilia Zsuzsanna Rak

I was trying to manage my PTSD (unsuccessfully), which was magnified by my newly received diagnoses of bipolar with treatment resistant depression and borderline traits.

The (im) possibilities of love with bipolar

by Casey Cannizzaro

I should have asked for her hand in marriage, but she would have just given me the finger. I live with bipolar disorder. Once, I loved with it too.

Physician Mental Health & Suicide

by Glenn Holsten

Physician Mental Health & Suicide by Glenn Holsten Doctors are the healers and the helpers. But what happens when it’s the doctors who need the healing and the help? An estimated 300 to 400 doctors die by suicide each year, a rate of 28 to 40 per 100,000; more...

The Power of an Emotional Support Animal in Mental Health Recovery

by Sarah Berendt

Bowser and I had met when I began a rather impulsive search for someone, or something, to help alleviate my mental and emotional turmoil.

Reasons Why I Should Die – Coming Back from Teenage Suicidal Ideation

by Ashley Armstrong

I’m writing now as a happy and fulfilled young adult. But ten years ago, I thought my life was worth ending.

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.

A Vain & Misguided Decision: Abandoning Schizoaffective Disorder Medication

by Danielle Flore

I am trying hard to make good decisions. I see my psychiatrist regularly. I take my medication. I try to live a healthy lifestyle with schizoaffective disorder.

Making Peace with Persistent Depressive Disorder

by Vincent M. Wales

Persistent depressive disorder (formerly known as dysthymic disorder or dysthymia) is just what it sounds like: depression that persists.

How I Recovered from a Disorder I Had Never Heard of – Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

by Kaylee Crawford

In my research, I found several articles about Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures. Doctors do not use the term pseudo-seizures anymore because it falsifies them and invalidates them. Pseudo is a prefix meaning “false” or “fake,” and the seizures I was having, while not epileptic, were anything but fake.

From Depressed and Suicidal to a New Outlook

by Fiona Kennedy

I went from unhappy to miserable to struggling to overwhelmed to depressed and suicidal. First I was diagnosed with post-natal depression, followed by treatment-resistant clinical depression. Then came the biggest clanger of all, diagnosis number three: borderline personality disorder.

How Bipolar Support Groups Helped Change My Life

by Laura Riordan

It took months of internal debate before I worked up the courage and the desire to at least give the depression and bipolar support groups a shot.

Bipolar Disorder and PTSD – How I Accepted My Mental Illness Before it had a Name

by Becca Beberaggi

Before I had a name for my mental illness — bipolar disorder and ptsd — this is what it felt like: playing diagnosis dress-up, trying on labels, seeing how they fit, and feeling lost — like there was nothing left in my closet to wear.

After I Destroyed Myself: Fast and Furious with Bipolar Disorder and Addiction

by Casey Cannizzaro

I’m not an expert on mental health, addiction, or suicide. I’m a survivor.

Playing Hide and Seek with a Demon: My Struggle with Anxiety

by Florence Mukangenzi

I don’t know when it started. It was not as though I suddenly woke up with a raging heartbeat and butterflies in my stomach, wishing I could run away from myself. It came in tiny bits of worry.

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