by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
ZACH I am a first-year medical student at the University of Kansas. My status, however, is almost up for expiration. In a mere 8 weeks I will have completed my first-year of classes. From the outside looking in, it would seem as if I am on the downward slope. I...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
COURTNEY I remember the first time I realized I had a problem. It was the first time I realized I wasn’t normal. It was the first time I thought about having a mental illness. I was not even 18, but I knew that something about me was not quite right. I didn’t feel...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
For me, my own approach to handling my cognitive distortions has changed from the clinical CBT approach to a more self-accepting approach. As a person who has experienced PTSD, panic, dissociation, and insomnia, the clinical approach can be, itself, depressing and...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
I remember when I was sad, crying in front of a teacher. I remember watching him trying to deal with me but he didn’t try hard enough. He just didn’t know what to do. This whole reason is why I’m writing this letter to you. Because you, The Teachers and Adults, need...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is not my story although it is since I lived with it 36 years. It is the story of my daughter, Elizabeth, who took her life five years ago at 36. Born a cuddly, bubbly baby until she started school at age 5, then ‘difference’ was noticed. She could...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Shakespeare said life is a great drama where we come on stage when born, and exit at death. So if society assigns me the role of Mad Man, what do I do? I have to act mad to survive and keep acting according to the script, all the time wondering who is the author...
