Your Future is Worth Sticking Around For
I still have days where I struggle with simply existing.
Topic: stigma
Barriers to Help: Q&A With a Mental Health Counselor
Sometimes guidance from a trusted individual is necessary when trying to navigate your journey toward help and healing, so we asked a Licensed Mental Health Counselor to respond to some of your questions and concerns.
Privilege, Oppression & Mental Health: Acknowledging the History in Our Stories
My history is tied to my mental health, the ways in which society teaches me to feel less for being a different color is tied to my mental health, the decisions of my political leaders are tied to my mental health, my sexual orientation is tied to my mental health.
How Anyone Can Help Trans People In Their Lives, Written From The Perspective of a Trans Man
Telling our stories and having our voices heard brings into focus our lives and our culture. It centers our personhood rather than our pain.
Growing up I Often Heard “Therapy Is for White People”
I didn’t understand why he fell silent when I cried or the blank look that overtook his face when I had a breakdown. I didn’t understand his resistance to things like therapy and psychiatry.
To the Healing Healers
The best you have to offer others will never be a cure-all method, a one-size-fits-most fix. The best you have to offer will always be yourself.
Culture, Conflict, and Belonging
My hope is that a fellow Mexican-American will read this and feel seen and heard and validated.
Disability and Mental Illness
Your empathy will go a long way in assisting our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
Navigating Mental Health in a Vietnamese Household
You will face barriers, whether it’s language, culture, or perspective, but barriers can be broken through communication.
My Journey With Spirituality: Believing in Love
I had to step away from spirituality to understand this lesson. I had to separate myself from something that was telling me that I wasn’t enough.
Coming Out: A Parade or a Whisper or Somewhere in Between
Living authentically and freely was my only option if I wanted to stay alive.
I was told ‘depression isn’t real’ and I really wanted to believe it
Imagine someone saying the anguish you’re experiencing is something you made up.
