French confinement
It all happened in the blink of an eye. I almost feel like we had made it through the busy period of the season with school holidays and were starting to prepare to slow down the BAM everything shut down (including our employment for the potential summer).
How I Turned My Broken Moments into a Mosaic (a blog post by Pura Torres)
LOVE MY JOB!” Every time I say this, or think it, I can’t help but smile and laugh a little. Being a peer support specialist for MHA-NYC’s NYC Well program has become the most important part of my life. It has turned every broken moment in my life into a stained glass mosaic.
My Life
One of my first memories is the first day in early childhood preschool. The classroom had several tables where we sat with our names taped in front of us. I stretched my arms out across the table and touched the girls name tag next to me and she immediately pushed my hand way saying don’t touch my name tag. I started to cry in embarrassment and became ashamed of myself. I felt instantly rejected by my classmates. I have always been a sensitive and emotional person who grew up thinking this was a bad thing and you couldn’t show people that part of you.
Dylan’s Transgender Story
My name is Dylan, I’m 22 years old and I’m from Chester, UK. For the first 20 years of my life I was known by another name, a completely different alias and persona.
First-person account from a nonviolent UK Uncut protester held in a police cell for 19 hours
The Establishment is scared of the power of this new movement – First-person account from a nonviolent UK Uncut protester held in a police cell for 19 hours.
I was proud to march “for the alternative” last Saturday. However, since the Iraq war protest, I know that no march, no matter how huge, is enough to change policy. And that’s why I left the main demo to join the UK Uncut action.
Live LOUD!
My story starts way back when I was just 3 years old.At that tender age no young child should witness a murder, let alone the murder of a parent.My father was murdered when I was 3 years old, by my eldest sister’s boyfriend. My mother instantly became a widow & single mom of 5. My […]
Am I just Delusional
Look this complicated feelings have been literally hunting me for the past three years .Three years ago I was accepted to the best high school in the state however I found my self obliged to move cities and live in dorm , supposedly with my best friend. Problems happened and I found my self leaving […]
CHILDHOOD ABUSE – I SURVIVED, SO CAN YOU!
By James I was born in a beautiful little town in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The first nine years of my life were wonderful. However, in beginning in 1967, my childhood was abruptly changed forever. Often, when I would go to play at my best friend’s house, his older brother would be home hiding in the […]
Why Living With Anxiety Is Like Walking on Custard
The following is an adaptation of a TED Talk from TEDxLeamingtonSpa called “Walking on Custard: How Physics Helps Anxious Humans.”
Fear usually pops up when we do something scary: jumping from planes, running from bulls… going clothes shopping…
But sometimes our response gets out of control, and we end up spending a disproportionate amount of time feeling afraid. We call this “anxiety.”
Language is limiting, and it’s frustrating we use the same word — anxiety — for both “reasonably worrying about a job interview” and also “crippling terror which prevents me from leaving the house.” It’s like having the same word for “all-out nuclear war” and “playful tickle fight.”
Anxiety is a spectrum, and so the association each of us has with the word might be different. For me, I’ve always been at the more unpleasant end of the spectrum. As a child, I was deeply worried about mortgages — for some reason — and then as I grew up it became obvious worrying was my main way of relating to the world.
Sophie’s Story – Medication plus Therapy Can Be the Answer for Bipolar Disorders
From birth, you could tell there was something different about me.