mental health

What’s it like to start on psychiatric medication? For me, it was akin to playing this board game.

What’s it like to start on psychiatric medication? For me, it was akin to playing this board game.

It’s a game of trial and error

Gemma Correll

September 22

September 22

The patriarchy isn’t just harming women — it’s killing men

The patriarchy isn’t just harming women — it’s killing men

Gender equality isn’t just good for women. It also saves men’s lives.

Liz Plank

September 14

September 14

It ‘starts the moment my body wakes up’: This is how I experience anxiety

It ‘starts the moment my body wakes up’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘I move into fight, flight and freeze’

Kate Gentry

September 12

September 12

It ‘has been creeping up on me almost daily’: This is how I experience anxiety

It ‘has been creeping up on me almost daily’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘Some people assume that anxiety doesn’t exist in teenagers and that we are overreacting’

Salomée Levy

September 5

September 5

‘Long bouts of insomnia, constant agitation, appetite dysregulation’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘Long bouts of insomnia, constant agitation, appetite dysregulation’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘I wish people who don’t suffer from anxiety knew how all-encompassing, deeply debilitating and disturbing anxiety can be’

Jess Beaudoin

August 29

August 29

‘We are so much stronger than we may realize’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘We are so much stronger than we may realize’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘Those of us who suffer anxiety wake up every day and leave our homes while our bodies betray us and our minds scream at us to go back’

Faith Myles

August 22

August 22

‘My hands have been shaking since middle school’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘My hands have been shaking since middle school’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘Freshman year, when I was at band camp, I had to leave early because I was so uncomfortable without my mom at my side’

Marielle Rua

August 15

August 15

I was more depressed than I’d ever been during pregnancy. But no one believed me.

I was more depressed than I’d ever been during pregnancy. But no one believed me.

Why did I have to beg for care?

Lauren Tanabe

August 11

August 11

‘I’m always asking myself, did I mess up?’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘I’m always asking myself, did I mess up?’: This is how I experience anxiety

‘I am always in fear of an anxiety attack, or worse, a panic attack’

Dionysianna Alailima

August 8

August 8

There’s a constant voice in my head telling me I’m not good enough. Here’s how I’m trying to overcome it.

There’s a constant voice in my head telling me I’m not good enough. Here’s how I’m trying to overcome it.

My therapist calls this ‘black-and-white thinking’ and says it isn’t productive

Christine Suggs

August 7

August 7