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Talking to My Daughter About Suicide…Again & Again
This article is part of iAmHere: Project Hineni essay series, which seeks to de-stigmatize mental health treatment, and improve accessibility to treatment and support for teens and parents in...
View ArticleHow My Severe Depression Changed My Relationship to God
I never covered my head in synagogue. No lace doilies for me! I was actually not comfortable even thinking about covering my head, even once I married. To me it felt like women were trying to be just...
View ArticleWhy the Term ‘Invisible Illness’ Is Not Enough
Within the past few days, I have run into people I have not seen in a while and was complemented on how “great” I look. The truth is that I do not feel great, and my anxiety is quite high as I am...
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My Best Friend’s Drug Addiction & Overdose Will Always Haunt Me
This article is part of the Here. Now essay series, which seeks to de-stigmatize mental health treatment, and improve accessibility to treatment and support for teens and parents in metropolitan New...
View ArticleThis Mom Who Miscarried Was Humiliated at a Babies “R” Us
Struggling with the emotional trauma and loss as a result of a miscarriage is one of the hardest things anyone can experience. This is why it’s especially helpful for women and families dealing with...
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The Suicidal Parent’s Guide for Raising a Child
This article is part of the Here. Now essay series, which seeks to de-stigmatize mental health treatment, and improve accessibility to treatment and support for teens and parents in metropolitan New...
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‘Harry Potter’ Actor Opens Up About His Depression & Suicidal Thoughts
This article is part of the Here. Now. essay series, which seeks to de-stigmatize mental health treatment, and improve accessibility to treatment and support for teens and parents in metropolitan New...
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What It’s Really Like Trying to Pass as a Neurotypical Teen
This article is part of the Here. Now. essay series, which seeks to de-stigmatize mental health treatment, and improve accessibility to treatment and support for teens and parents in metropolitan New...
View ArticleI Just Gave Birth to My Third Child & I’m Honestly a Mess
Tears burst out of my eyes and streamed down my face. Large, round drops fell from my cheeks to my shirt. All it took was for someone to ask, “How’s it going?” And I couldn’t stop. For an entire two...
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I’m Finally Realizing I’m Not My Depression
What do you do when you are enduring a third major depressive episode within the last three years? I, for one, write about it. It helps me to communicate what I’m feeling, and I hope to help others who...
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This Is My Survival Mode Plan as a Mom with Depression
I have suffered from depression since I was a teen. In the past, I was too lazy and never took it seriously enough to develop a plan to deal with depression. However, after one year of being a mom,...
View ArticleFamily Claims Cyberbullying Led Their 18-Year-Old Daughter to Fatally Shoot...
Police are investigating whether cyberbullying played a role in the tragic suicide of a teen this week. 18-year-old Brandy Vela shot herself in the chest at her Texas City, Texas home on Tuesday. That...
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Why I Talk About My Own Struggles as a Teen with Depression
When I was 12 years old, I was formally diagnosed with depression. It came after a week away from home at camp, when my director heard that I had told other people that I had thoughts of killing...
View ArticleThis is What It’s Like to Live with Severe Depression as a Mom
Several months ago, I wrote here of my experience with severe anxiety. I went into detail of everyday struggles to show people what it’s really like. Now that I am amid yet another major depressive...
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Thank You, Carrie Fisher, For Taking the Stigma Out of Mental Illness
On October 21 of 2012, I made a choice to make my blog public. For a few months prior I had been writing about my experience living with suicidal depression, being hospitalized, and getting...
View ArticleHow My Jewish Community Helped Me Through My Depression
2016 was ushered in, for me, with a cloud of darkness. I was three months pregnant and entering a major depressive episode, the likes of which I had never experienced before. I had decided to try and...
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I Survived The Living Nightmare That Is A Psychotic Break
This autumn, I found myself in an emergency room, cursing out a social worker, ranting about being in “the matrix.” Insisting that the E.R. had been cleared of all real patients and was filled with...
View ArticleMy Water Broke–And Then Came the Mom Guilt
There are some women that have that pregnancy glow. Their skin radiates and their smile dazzles the room. It’s like millions of years of biology led them to this moment and they are here for it. I was...
View ArticleThe Surprising Benefits to My Daughter Watching Me Deal with Depression
As I have been ill on and off for the past three years, dealing with severe depression and anxiety, it has been a struggle to be there for my daughter. My daughter will soon be 7 years old, and the...
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Meet the Jewish Teen Who’s Capturing What Mental Illness Looks Like
Haley M. is a college freshman at the College of New Jersey majoring in art education. Her recent series of paintings, seen throughout this piece, were inspired by her experience with mental illness....
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