by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s been a long 21 years. I can’t say I’m going to miss you. We met 21 years ago when I was 10 years old. You came in my life and all my focus went towards you. You had my full attention. I did stupid things for you. I could’ve died from the...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
My addiction to benzos and sleeping pills nearly took my life. In an effort to self-medicate my depression, anxiety and insomnia away, I lost total control and plunged deeper and deeper into the abyss of mental illness and addiction. I lived in a clouded haze because...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have been in a Psychiatric hospital for 7 and a half weeks, and today I am being birthed into reality. Today is discharge day.25 years of suffering with chronic depression and life long abuse has brought me here.I have no idea what awaits me, I know that two months...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
I was in college at the time and slowly it started with burning leg pains, depression, anxiety, fatigue and occasional paranoid thoughts which led to a diagnosis of a thyroid condition. But when the depression and fatigue lingered, my parents asked our doctor who...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
I still remember with nostalgia the days I spent absorbing myself in unhelpful social media pages. The days where I would contemplate eating an apple for the day or continue to exercise without a single reward. The days where I would wear layers of clothes, thousands...
by hi@nostigmas.org | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
I had a traumatic experience when I was 14-years-old, which then caused a non-existing relationship with my mother. I was brought up being told that I could not talk about anything and that I was not allowed to show any emotions. So, that’s what I did. I started...
