Dr. Darin Bergen, 39, Portland, US
“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…
“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…
*** 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.…
“I have lived with depression since early adolescence, and developed PTSD during college. Suffice it to say that I lived with a ton of self-blame,…
“It was 18 years ago. My mum and I came back from a holiday, a couple of days we had spent away with my grandparents.…