It Is Human to Struggle
To have someone just let you exist and hold out a hand when you’re a little too close to the edge.
Topic: stigma
To have someone just let you exist and hold out a hand when you’re a little too close to the edge.
The scars don't make me feel ashamed. I'm alive, I'm radically joyful.
I don’t believe that having a diagnosis of my own makes me a less effective clinician.
The intersection of mental health and homelessness.
We deserve to seek help without stigma from those tasked with caring for us.
The things that helped me survive.
These words were spoken in love and broadcast in an attempt to project shame.
I couldn’t name mental health. I couldn’t call my depression by its title when it came creeping up to scare me. Instead, I let it overstay its welcome.
"While I can label the thought all I want with words like negative, dark, disappointing—when I boil it down to the basics, it’s just a thought."
What would happen if instead of telling “negative” or “difficult” kids that their outcries were disruptive and made people feel uncomfortable, we told them they have a right to feel all the complicated emotions and not just the pretty ones?
My shame will not survive.
I sincerely believed that my living, NOT my dying, was the selfish act.
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