It’s that time of year again, folks! We’re looking for bloggers to join the 2021 Fall/Winter You Matter Blogger Council. The new...
Living on your own for the first time can be a huge adjustment-especially if the people you’ve been living with, whether family...
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Mental illnesses command the atmosphere like tornadoes, spinning everything around in circles until we are stuck sorting through the aftermath of a once healthy life. They tear through homes, through friendships, through careers; they do it relentlessly and without apology. Mental illness hit me hard in college. I was failing classes. I had taken a […]
Sharleigh
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“Do you have a plan?” The words make me wince. I shift uncomfortably in my seat because I don’t know the answer. I wait for him to change the subject, but when I look back up my therapist is looking intently at me, his hands folded in front of him, patiently. A year ago, when […]
Leah
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I just got discharged from an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. I see a therapist once a week. Every Monday and Thursday, I spend an hour in group therapy. Then I change into my scrubs and drive to work. I’m a psychiatric nurse. I’m also a psychiatric patient. “You don’t know about bipolar disorder. You can’t really […]
Annie
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Surely we have time to spend one day out of the week connecting with the world – and I don’t mean via wi-fi.
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The #DearMe campaign was started as a way for women to give advice to their younger selves. You made need a tissue when you hear what they had to say.
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