College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has l...
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
I'll say it again - mental illness is a physical illness. You wouldn't consider going up to someone suffering from Alzheimers to yell, "Come on, get with it, you remember where you left your keys?" Le...
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.