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August 14, 2019

Back to School Doesn’t Have to Mean Back to Stigma Yes

It was late one weekday. I had just gotten up from one of my long naps that characterized countless vain…

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May 8, 2015

Opinion: Ending stigma of mental health starts with us

My experience with depression and anxiety would have been so different had I not self-stigmatized and believed it would show…

Depression, Lived Experience, Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health Stigma, Mental Illness...
April 13, 2015

We’ve got your back.

When I was eighteen, like many young folks, I left my hometown in the coal fields of West Virginia to…

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