I had a picture-perfect pregnancy and delivery. I was ready for the future, believing naively that my life would stay pretty much the same. I am embarrassed to say this…
I’m a 43-year-old Army veteran. From 2013 to 2020, I was on seven different medications at 15 different doses. It was a lot of going back and forth, playing a…
It’s been a rough road. I’m 45 years old, have a 26-year-old son (with two little girls). I often babysit my granddaughters and another child who I call my non-bio…
If you don’t have your mental health, you have nothing. I’m not ashamed that I have depression. I’m not ashamed if I burst into tears. It’s me. It took a…
I first started with depression and ADHD symptoms around 16. I’ve been bouncing around on medications for these conditions for most of my life – my guess is that I’ve…
I didn’t go looking for depression, but I certainly wasn’t going to let it define my life without trying to fight. Ten years ago, I was suicidal, at the bottom…
“What’s the most expensive medication?” someone recently asked me. I tilted my head as I thought. Then came the answer: “it’s the one that doesn’t work.” This. I felt this…
I am a busy mom. I had three kids in five years and tried to work as needed, but I struggled with situational anxiety. When I sought counseling in 2018,…
I spent 16 years as a general nurse practitioner in the home healthcare industry. One important thing that became increasingly obvious as I spent more time in people’s homes: there…