Stay Awhile

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

"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...

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...

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 ...

“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...

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...

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...

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...