“I was sitting on the bus the other day, listening to music, writing down fragments of my latest poem on my phone; ‘What a life,…
“Growing up I had a lot of emotions, many of them painful, and didn’t really know what to do with them. I was bullied in…
“My golden ages were lived in my childhood, or at least that was what I thought. I would go to my grandmother’s house every Saturday…
*** TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS SUICIDE *** “I battle depression and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. One year ago today, I shuffled out of the psych ward. They…
“I’m Melissa, 28 and living in Lincolnshire in the UK. I have been through depression, with a side order of crippling anxiety and dermatillomania (skin…
“Having grown up with a dysfunctional family and turbulent background I found myself struggling to avoid trouble and stay on the straight and narrow up…
“‘Why can’t I just be like everyone else?’. An expression most prominent in my mind when I’m in public with my heart racing and sweating.…
