Stay Awhile Project

Feeling Like You Belong

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 first seven...

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 first seven...

If At First You Don't Succeed...

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 still don't understand. I ran...

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 still don't understand. I ran...

I'm In Here

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...

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...

Unfinished Puzzle

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. Pink...

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. Pink...

This Was My Sinking Ship

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. The first time I ever...

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. The first time I ever...

We Can Be Miserable Together

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 moment and of course, why...

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 moment and of course, why...