Winning The War In My Head - Adam Nebbs
It's been hard getting up the courage to share but I think these days it's important we do.
I've battled anxiety for many years now, even when I was young all I can remember was obsessing about what others thought of me. In the last two year's I've lost my best mate to suicide, seen a marriage crumble and my self with it …
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Profiting From My Pain
I’m proud to say that I’m mentally ill.
That sentence probably made a lot of people squirm, which is an indication that we still have a lot of work to do regarding the stigma associated with mental illness. But I stand by my statement.
- April W
"Pits and Valleys”
"On May 8, 2015, I was released from my fourth and final mental hospital. I had spent over half a year in them during the age of 14 due to self-harm and a suicide attempt. After two years of being put on God knows how many high dosage medications, it felt like my doctors and I had finally cracked the code" - Sam Wilson
"Stars Don't Fade Away"
"Green eyes. Beard. Enchanting smile. Handing out bubblegums to children. My earliest memory of the molestation doesn’t even begin with unpleasant events ..." - Amour
"It’s Never Too Late"
"I was two years old when my mother first abandoned me on my father’s doorstep, and five years old when I began to notice my mother’s abusive behavior. She would ignore me for weeks, pushing me away from her when I tried to hug her. The abuse seemed to grow stronger as I grew older. She would steal drugs from the nursing home she worked at and combine them with Captain Morgan and Diet Coke." - Sabrina Copeman
"This Too Shall Pass"
"At the age of 17 I suffered an episode of severe psychotic depression. At that age I had no idea what it meant to have a mental health problem; no one had ever told me about mental illnesses and I didn't have the words or knowledge to make sense of what was happening to me ... " - Jasmine Amber
"Spinal Surgery at 26 Years Old"
“The worst-case scenario is you’ll never walk again … and you’ll have limited use of your arms and hands.” That was a sentence that I never expected to hear. Especially not at 26 ..." - Toby Carr