by hi@nostigmas.org | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Lacie I became a Nurse to help others like me, to treat them the way I wish/wanted to be treated when I needed help, to help them be the best they can be. you see, I know what it’s like to have trouble paying for meds, what it’s like having side...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Alyson I was 36 when I finally became a doctor. I say finally because the eight years I spent working toward my PhD were the longest, most painstaking years of my existence. Depressed and overwhelmed both with life and the impossible expectations I had set for myself...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Kyla So many times we hear stories of people “suffering” with mental illnesses. But often times it didn’t feel like suffering. It felt like coping in silence. Which I guess to some extent is the same thing. Since I was 12 I knew something was off...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Coach Lori I’ve come to understand that big problems in life that cause breakdowns mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, aren’t something that happens overnight. It’s an accumulation of life’s stressors. It’s like the story of the frog in kettle of...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Photo Credit Ellen Bond Lou I am a sexual abuse survivor who has many mental health challenges due to the abuse and who the abuser was. Among my challenges are chronic depression, anxiety, BPD and PTSD. I have just recently become more creative. I’m using this...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ashley I fear. It is something ever present in my narrative, fear. There’s a knot that builds within me, making my breaths shorter, my vision narrow, and my voice quiver. Fear builds upon itself like an avalanche, threatening to cloud my vision and encase me in...
