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Steps to Stomp out Stigma
As the teenage mental illness and suicide rate gradually rises, we must learn to open our mouths and speak.
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Making Sense
Coming up on the anniversary of Jesse’s suicide, I am taking back my life. I am taking back what mental illness took from my brother.
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Focus on Your Recovery
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 15. No one in my family had ever heard of this illness.
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Drowning
One year ago today, I was pronounced dead from attempting suicide for the third time. Today will be a bittersweet day for the rest of my life.
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Five Things I Have Learned
I do not ‘suffer from bipolar disorder,’ though I once did. It is not because I am ‘cured’ but because I have learned a lot about managing symptoms.
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Learning to Love Myself—and My Bipolar Disorder
I had heard of bipolar disorder, but I had stigmatized and stereotypical ideas about what people with bipolar disorder were like.
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The Fight for My Life
My psychiatrist finally found a combination of medications that work for me and I don’t have as many dark days anymore.
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Dear Mom
Dear Mom: There are so many things I wish I could have said to you before you left us.
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Being Courageous
It’s taken me a lot of learning and growing to realize I am not defined by my illness, but by my courage and strength.
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Understanding Ryan
Not understanding the implications of mental illness, I was actually grateful that there was a name for Ryan’s sad, strange behavior and arrested development.