Mental Health Advocate Mom: As a mental health advocate mom, I now have a diagnostic vocabulary without a medical degree. As a result, the terms Dual Diagnosis, Co-Morbidity, Bipolar, Borderline, Schizoaffective disorder roll off my tongue. Treatments to manage mental illness including; CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), DBT (Dialectic Behavioral Therapy), as well as the variety […]
A Bipolar Healing Story
For as long as I can remember, I was stuck in crippling fear. My personal story has been a journey. My world felt like a battleground, and I felt like I was the only one fighting. I remember I used to lay in bed as early as the age of three and ask myself a […]
Katie L
Just a comment? I could actually write an essay. There’s just no way to describe in just one comment how much I’ve been through the past year and how much I’ve been almost reliant on the relief I feel when I get home from a long day, take off my shoes etc. and get in […]