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My Dark Place

[…] in, but because we can pull each other out.   Rachel Moorefield is married to her love, Steve, and together they have three amazing children together: Isaiah, Bella, and Myley. Rachel has become a mental health advocate after losing her eldest child, Isaiah, to suicide in 2018. She advocates through her YouTube channel. quote image

Fighting for My Daughter’s Recovery By Demanding a Change in the System

[…] share our story and fight for change in our mental health care system. My daughter struggled so hard to see the value of her life. She attempted suicide on multiple occasions, tormented by her own mind and beliefs that she was not meant to be here. I had to fight hard to get her […]

Compassion, Community and Understanding Helped My Recovery

Words on a piece of paper didn’t define my mental health journey. They simply gave it a name and helped me process my struggles.

Finding My Power to Speak Up

I resigned myself to a sad, hopeless, unfulfilling life. Friends saw me struggle. Family saw me struggle. I never spoke up.

Navigating the Mental Health System as a Woman with Autism

Many of us living with autism are left feeling trapped when our instincts and behaviors don’t fit into the narrow confines of what is deemed “normal.”

My Lifelong Journey with Borderline Personality Disorder

With the correct diagnoses and sufficient professional help in place, I now am on the right track to helping myself.

Breaking Generational Trauma and Asking for Help

I smiled through it. Through the dark episodes of depression in which I drowned silently in pain and shame. Through the thoughts of suicide. Visions of how I would end it all stitched themselves in my brain. I didn’t want anyone to know how I was feeling. I didn’t want to burden my husband, […]

I Will Not Be Defined by a Diagnosis

[…] what was happening. After a month of not getting out of bed, I moved back home with my parents, where my depressive state worsened and I attempted suicide. For the next three years, I was hospitalized on more than one occasion; I saw doctor after doctor, therapist after therapist, took medication after medication, received […]

My Sunshine: A Mother’s Painful Journey with Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

I had no understanding of what was happening or how to help my son. 

Moving Past My Upbringing and Inherited Trauma

[…] felt depressed or couldn’t get out of bed, we attributed this to “just being lazy.” So I struggled in silence with my depression. In secret, I contemplated suicide more times than I can count. When I took a chance and confided in my family, they told me that I needed to “suck it up” […]