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Personal Story
01.03.2023
Learning To Be Me Again
Having anxiety hasn't been easy. I learned that I have to be okay with uncertainty in my life and that not everything is always going to go the way I have planned in my head.
Personal Story
12.12.2022
A Teen's Story
I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression when I was 13. I found out what mental health was a couple of days later by having a panic attack. After going to a therapist my mental health was getting better. Two years later my cousin passed away in a car crash.
Personal Story
12.01.2022
Healing—Whether You Believe you Can or Cannot, Either Way You're Right
My panic attacks started getting bad and started to occur more regularly. Almost once a day, which left me more scared.
Personal Story
11.22.2022
Emotionally Numb
Well, there was something wrong with me and it wasn't until years later that I realized that I had become emotionally numb. In the following years I read several self-help books that gave me hope and something to believe in but it took a very long time for my emotions to wake up.
Personal Story
11.14.2022
Taking Safety, Defense and Prevention from the Football Field to the Mental Health Field
In football, I play safety. It’s a position I have taken most of my professional life but also in my journey with mental health advocacy and calling for more awareness and equity, particularly in sports.
Personal Story
11.14.2022
Searching for Sullivan
My struggle with depression and anxiety is one I still deal
Personal Story
11.02.2022
What I Learned from Working in a Behavioral Health Hospital
I found that treating the person, talking to the person, and seeing the person was the best and most effective way to deliver care. They were people, not merely patients.
Personal Story
10.27.2022
Ending the Silence of Quiet Suffering
For six weeks, I quietly suffered. I just couldn’t let anyone know what I was going through. I had learned from an early age that “I was just too emotional” and “had nothing to be sad about.”
Personal Story
10.19.2022
Unsaid Feelings Never Left Unsaid nor Unheard
And I will write. I will write until it hurts no more. I will write until the agony left expressed like a historic event that needs to be recorded hoping that like words, it can also be erased, edited, and forever saved.
Personal Story
10.15.2022
Romance Novels and Improving Mental Health
With the #MeToo movement and the rising numbers of people af
Personal Story
10.07.2022
D.R.E.A.M. (Dreams Rule Everything Around Me)
As someone who has suffered chronic depression and has a fam
Personal Story
10.06.2022
Finding My Own Silver Linings Playbook Through Mental Health Advocacy
Bachelor Clayton Echard shares his experience with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a mental health condition that involves obsessively focusing on a real or perceived flaw in one’s physical appearance to a point where it interferes with daily life. If you suffer from BDD, you can find information and resources at ADAA.
