I have been living with this for as long as I can remember. I think everything this site, Bell Let's Talk, and especially...
So where's the pendulum today? My first question every day as my feet hit the floor. So has been my life since the...
Through the years of mothering my son, my constant companions have always been there; guilt, grief, pain, mental illness and shame. There have...
A lot of people who suffer from bipolar disorder compare their experience to being on a roller coaster. It's easy to compare the...
For the first eight years of my depression, I managed it-with mediocre success-without the benefit of medication because either the drugs had no effect or the side effects were...
As I write this, I worry about grammatical errors I may make, I worry about the phone ringing to give me tragic news, I worry that my clothes won't...
When I was clinically diagnosed with a mental illness, I had to take on the responsibility of sitting down with every individual who made up my support system (i.e.,...
Hindsight is 20/20, I wish I had a time machine. If I could go back in time and talk with my 15-year-old self, I would tell her she isn't...
There is not much more that can go wrong for me in 2016. A lot of negative things have happen to me. First,...
I was born in the 70's, raised in the 80's. Things back then seem so much simpler. But for me it wasn't. I was...