How to Support a Partner With Depression
Being able to talk openly about mental illness is critical for the health and survival of a long-term relationship. Here are some pointers I’ve found may assist in connection, understanding, and support.
Topic: depression
The Reality of Therapy
Even while in therapy, I still called a crisis line following awful days at work. I told them I was having suicidal thoughts, and I just wanted it to stop. But the truth is, therapists and counselors can’t chase away your demons, not without your help at least.
Do What You Were Made For.
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This Is Why I Know Honesty and Education Are Key to Suicide Prevention
Every day I think about how much pain my brother must have been in — how much emotional and spiritual pain — and I wonder if therapy could have helped him. I’ll never know the answer to that question.
Beyond Shades of Gray
If you're lost, if you're trapped in the silence—please know that there is a way out. And it does not involve you leaving. It involves you staying.
Made to Live
When you start remembering everything you’ve lived for, you can’t help but know there’s so much more living to do.
It’s All Worth Living For
What was it, I wonder, that was so special about that particular road trip? The one where you filmed the trees passing by through a window smudged with fingerprints and morning dew?
Instead of Killing Myself, I Called a Suicide Hotline
You call and wait to be connected, and after that minute or so wait, you speak to an elder Black woman, elder because you can hear the age and timbre of her experienced voice, and hear her breath while you cry and sob and weep in public...
My Struggles Are Not Something I Need to Be Ashamed Of
Although they saw it as just a skit, it was my life. My struggle.
Why You Should Never Be Afraid to Start Over
Starting over means that you got up off the ground, dusted off your hands, and put yourself back on the path to where you want to go.
Valid
I approached my family doctor and for the first time I told her that my body was fine, but my mind was sick.
What if you told the story of your own suffering?
Sometimes I wonder still what would have happened if my mother and I had opened up to each other there in the kitchen. Could we have saved each other?
