Category: Interviews & Your stories

  • Share Your Story – Kay

    Share Your Story – Kay

    Tell us a little about yourself I’m 20 year old. I manage a page that helps to raise the awareness of mental health and stop the stigma! ‘This is what a person with mental illness looks like’ is a page to show everyone and us who live with mental illness that we aren’t alone and…

  • Defiant Not Compliant -Cerridwens Heart’s Mental Health Journey Part 3

    Defiant Not Compliant -Cerridwens Heart’s Mental Health Journey Part 3

    In Part 1 and Part 2, Cerridwen Heart has been sharing her story.  Cerridwen did not have a good start in life.  Developing mental health challenges, Cerridwen got involved in relationships looking for love that only made her feel worse.  She continues below…. Finally, John completed his mission to complete suicide, choosing to throw himself…

  • Defiant Not Compliant – Cerridwens heart’s Mental Health Journey Part 2

    Defiant Not Compliant – Cerridwens heart’s Mental Health Journey Part 2

    An abusive alcoholic father, a mother who wished she had aborted her, caused Cerridwen to self loathe.  This finally led her to develop mental health challenges.  Cerridwens Heart continues her awe inspiring story from the last time below…. Drinking heavily was the norm in my life growing so why should I be any different?  Besides I was…

  • Defiant Not Compliant – Cerridwens Heart’s Mental Health Journey Part 1

    by Cerridwens Heart Mental health challenges are a mixed bag that are not as easily definable as we’d like them to be.  Life would be so much easier if we all fit into those classic textbook definitions and could respond to treatments and therapies in the way that science and logic dictate we should. As…

  • Share your story – Sahar Hakim-Hashemi

    Tell us a little about yourself I’m Sahar, a recent graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).   Those who have not gone to MIT might not know what it’s like to be a student at the best engineering school in the world.   For me, and many of my friends and classmates, it was extremely difficult…

  • Share your story – Fancy Macelli

    Share your story – Fancy Macelli

      Tell us a little about yourself I am an actress, singer, mother and wife who has bipolar disorder.   I have also just been diagnosed with PTSD. I am writing and starring in a new series, called Coping.  The series is based on my life as a single mother with bipolar disorder who loses her own mom…