When you imagine anxiety, what do you see?
Please Don’t Stop Inviting Your Friend With Anxiety
Accompanied by more anxiety, guilt and isolation, I worry that I am letting the people that I love down. I worry that people will see me as unreliable. I worry that I will seem boring.
The “Blue Whale” Suicide Challenge: What Parents Need to Know
The “Blue Whale Challenge,” also called the “Blue Whale game,” and “F57,” is a “game” that investigators believe to have started in Russia, and has been the cause of multiple teen deaths by suicide. Kids are literally being blackmailed and threatened into harming themselves and others.
High School Students in Michigan Launch Peer Project: “13 Reasons Why Not”
In the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" Hannah Baker gives 13 reasons why she felt she needed to die. Students at Oxford High School are changing the game.
Mental Health Awareness Month: Ronja’s Story—Breaking Through the Brokenness
"Depression is an incredibly hard journey to walk through. It breaks us in ways we cannot quite understand, as it steals our worth and twists our perspective all wrong. It leaves marks on us that are hard to remove."
More Than 500,000 Scars Cover Her Body—Dr. Phil Helps Woman Fight Through the Trauma That Haunts Her
If you or someone you know is struggling with self-harm, concerning depression or thoughts of suicide, contact the Crisis Text Line by texting “START” to 741-741, or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Anxious Girlfriend Texts “Are We Okay?”—Boyfriends 4-Word Response Goes Viral for All the Right Reasons
"It's hard loving someone who suffers from anxiety... Find yourself someone who doesn't make you feel like loving you is a job."
Celebrities Tackle Mental Health Stigma With 4-Fingered-Selfie
The hashtag, #1in4 is trending like crazy! The powerful reason celebs are joining the fight against mental illness will leave you inspired.
“Normal” College Situations Aren’t So Normal When You Have Anxiety
How 'normal' students vs. anxious students react to different college experiences.
When Posting About Your Illness on Social Media Annoys Other People
"People are quick to jump to assumptions and judge, but they aren’t quick enough to ask if we need help or how we’re doing."
’13 Reasons Why’ You Should Stay Alive
So you're fighting the world. I know, believe me, I've done that before too—and I won.
You Are Not Your Anxiety
Your mental illness does not define you: You are BRAVE.
13 Things I Wish I Could Tell Hannah Baker
There are more than "13 Reasons Why" she deserved to hear these words.
A Word to Girls About Sexting and Setting Standards
"God’s plan for you is better than anything you can imagine, and when you place your trust in that, you find all the love you need."
15 Ways to Love Someone With Depression and Anxiety
Loving someone with depression and anxiety just means loving the only way any of us ever should—with listening hearts, open minds and a willingness to look into the many branches of each other’s souls.
To My Sweet Child, From Your Mama With Mental Illness
"I wish with all my being that I could keep my disorder from you, so you never think my love for you is altered in anyway."
The Day My Brother With Down Syndrome Became a Viral Meme
I wanted the creator of the meme to feel the weight of what he had done. I wanted him to come out from behind the security of his computer screen to face me in the real world because only then could he see the negative impact his cruel joke had upon so many people.
Amy Bleuel, Founder of Project Semicolon, Passes Away
“A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose not to. The author is you and the sentence is your life.”
