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My first memories of dealing with mental health or even realizing something was wrong was when my grandmother passed away. I was 17 and from that moment, I started to have panic attacks, depression, anxiety, and depersonalization. Depersonalization is when you suffer a trauma that’s too much for your brain to handle, so it detaches […]

We wanted to take this time to remind you that you’re not alone, and there are things you can do to support mental health awareness. We know it can be hard to know where to start when it comes to supporting mental health awareness, so we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite […]

Interviewer: Okay. So your mother had fibromyalgia and in the mind, you were eight. Your problems were not seen because everybody was concerned about her. And you were sexually assaulted as a child, is that correct? Yeah. My mother had fibemyeralgia and the mind of an 8 year old, my child problems were not seen […]

So when you talk about anxiety just kind of like in the black community, they might be like, oh, you’re not depressed. What is depression? Depression is different for everybody, in my opinion. So like with my family and stuff like that, everything just stops, like can get out of bed. You don’t have any […]

In the United States, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death. Every year, there are over 100,000 reported suicides. If you know someone who is considering suicide, it is important that you don’t ignore the signs. If you do, it could lead to tragedy. Here are some things to look out for: If you’ve […]

So we’re going to start here. What is your story? Like what happened when you were encountered with mental health? So in 2017, I lost my grandmother and my grandmother was my best friend, told her everything. And I think seeing my mom take it well, my mom doesn’t show much emotion. And so it […]

So the first time that I became aware of mental illness was after I saw a loved one die, I witnessed her taking her last breaths and that was very traumatic for me. I started out having what I know now is referred to as death trauma. So I had like a fear of death […]

By the age of 15 I had lost my best friend to suicide. He was high on drugs and drunk when this happened. From there, I really took my drug abuse to the extreme and just wanted more and more. This lead me to truancy at school and hanging out in the streets. I was […]

I would sit in there in the phone with my best friend as she prayed me through that time. Every single day. Whether I wanted to or not. She knew something was wrong and made it a point to be a the light I needed in the darkness. Once you’re in depression, you start to […]

During this time, I wasn’t aware that I was actually going through depression. During this time, I wasn’t aware that I was actually going through depression. It wasn’t until almost a year later that I realized everything I was feeling or going through wasn’t necessarily normal reactions to the high pressure stress and change I […]