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Feeling Like You Belong
Kinship, community, feeling like you belong, all things I was born with a natural aversion to. In all places I felt out of place and small. For the...
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
I've struggled with depression for as long as I can remember. At age thirteen, my paranoid schizophrenic sister tried to murder me for reasons I st...
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I'm In Here
When I was thirteen, I pulled my mom aside and confessed how I had been feeling. There was a word for it- a medical one at that. Saying it aloud co...
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Unfinished Puzzle
I remember that night... I scrambled to clean up my room, but with his tunnel vision, would he have even noticed? The star of the show was my bed. ...
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This Was My Sinking Ship
I can remember into early childhood having thoughts of not belonging, or wanting to leave. I faced a lot of conflicts at school, even in elementary...
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We Can Be Miserable Together
"I just want to stop existing" words that one should not utter in emergency care. These words could trigger a psychiatric hold or a life-changing m...
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Color Guard
If I would’ve taken my life, I would’ve missed out on so much honestly. I would’ve missed out on meeting my boyfriend, getting into color guard, et...
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A Week Before Christmas
In 2005, a week before Christmas, I woke up to my 1 month 4 week old baby nephew dead and had to wake up his mom aka my sister, and my mom and dad ...
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Sun & Moon
“Oh, Moon God!” C. chanted, as we gathered together on the night of the Pink
Supermoon. It was my last night of residential treatment for eating di...
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My Daughter Saved Me
Hello my name is [REDACTED] I’m 19 years old a mother of one and a soon to be college student, depression is something that I never thought I would...
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Slow Dancing With My Darling
I have been depressed ever since I can remember. I would sit on the playground alone at age seven and tell myself I didn’t deserve friends. I would...
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Massive Amounts Of Radiation
My life has been an interesting, challenging and varied roller coaster with some fun, stability and enlightenment along the way!
When I was six m...
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