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Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder

[…] anorexia. After I was discharged from the eating disorder unit for the second time, my company dismissed me, and I collapsed into a severe depression and attempted suicide.   After even more suffering, and another attempt at my life, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). By then, I was 29 years old.  […]

My Long Journey to Getting My Son Help

[…] this child — or the other 10 she lost to the system long ago.    At age five, the child of my heart spoke of dying by suicide. I shouldn’t have been surprised because he’d heard it from his birth mom daily, but it broke my heart in a million tiny pieces. After an […]

Responding to Crisis: The Crisis Living Room

[…] ailments such as these, approximately 4% of all visits are due to mental illness or substance use, including overdose, acute psychotic features, a panic attack or a suicide attempt.  Unfortunately, emergency rooms — and even most hospitals — are not set up to adequately treat mental illness due to time constraints and stressful surroundings. […]

What Does Support Mean to You?

[…] are being taken advantage of. If I seek support from my fiancé, I should not guilt him into doing things or helping me by using my previous suicide attempts as a way to get what I want from him. This is manipulation, not support. Instead, I will reach out to him when I am […]

Healing from Heartbreak with BPD

"I understand that I feel things so much deeper than those who don’t live with BPD and that I should not act on each emotion."

The Many Impacts of Self-Stigma

"Recovery is the ultimate way to prove stigma wrong."

How Biking Helped My PTSD

[…] country, especially in the Afghan Civil War. But, as I later came to learn, the Taliban hunting me daily, IEDs exploding all around me and mingling with suicide bombers isn’t thrilling at all. The horrors of war have lived with me long after I’ve left the battlefield. When I got back home, at first, […]

I Thought I Understood My Daughter’s Mental Illness, But I Had No Idea

"Just because we have the same thing doesn’t mean it is the same thing. Everyone’s mental health displays differently."

Asking for and Accepting Help Saved Me

Up until four years ago, I was convinced that I would die by suicide. I made more than three serious suicide attempts that landed me in almost every emergency room or intensive care unit in Chicago. At times, my depression was so severe that I could not walk, sleep or eat. I was fired […]

How I Dealt with Mental Health Discrimination in the Church

Mental illness doesn’t make me a “bad Christian.”