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KAYLA- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 31, 2020 - We've taught Kathan so much already in his almost 4 years.
Letters, numbers, colors, shapes, days of the week.. the l...
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ROBERT ST JOHN- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 30, 2020 - On May 25th, 1983, at 2 a.m. I was driving 90 mph down 4th Street in Hattiesburg, MS with my car lights off and three po...
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EMILY- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 29, 2020 - Sometimes it’s hard to put my mental health into words. I’ve been wanting to write something for awhile now, but depress...
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JOSH- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 28, 2020 - I remember being 15 years old sitting in class on a Wednesday afternoon where the school would show an educational serie...
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MICHELLE- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 27, 2020 - I spent 9 years in addiction. It all started when I was only 16 years old.
I started drinking on the weekends and going...
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MALLORY- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 26, 2020 - In July 2013 I started my residency year at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and was filled with excitement...
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BETH- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 25, 2020 - For me, it was guilt. Overwhelming sense of constant guilt. It started in the end February 2018.
We went to Disneylan...
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I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON MY BROTHER- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 24, 2020 - I have one sibling, a brother, who is two years older than I. We are different in a lot of ways. He is tall and thin. I,...
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BRITTANI- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 23, 2020 - I remember at the age of 13 I was at my mom’s office and she got a call that my brother had been in a horrible accident.
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SUMMER- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 22, 2020 - There is a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar entitled, "We Wear the Mask." It reads:
“We wear the mask that grins and lies...
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I HAVE A VOICE AND IT MATTERS- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 21, 2020 - When I was young, I was confident, outgoing, and I never met a stranger. In elementary I met a girl that quickly became...
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AMBER- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 20, 2020 - April, 14, 2006 was a bitter sweet day for me.
As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a mom. It would be 30 years ol...
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COURTNEY- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 19, 2020 - I joined the Army a few years back. I had decided to join due to the love of serving, & wanted to serve my country as we...
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BRENT- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 18, 2020 - Growing up I was an overweight kid, I struggled with my weight all of my life and still do to this day. I was picked on...
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JOY- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 17, 2020 - January 9, 2011 was a day that will be with me for the rest of my life.
It was the day that mine and my daughter’s li...
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ROBERT- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 16, 2020 - My brother Jeff killed himself when he was 22 years old.
He died alone in his car, no one knows the exact reason he d...
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HERE'S THE HAPPY PART- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 15, 2020 - As a child, I never realized that I was struggling with a disease. I knew that I was a lot sadder and darker and anxious...
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KRISTEN- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 14, 2020 - After my husband and I got married, we decided to start trying for a baby immediately. Growing up, I had always heard, "...
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VICTORIA EVERETT- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 13, 2020 - My name is Victoria Everett. By now you have read several submissions from other people and it seems wrong to not share...
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BYRON- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 12, 2020 - We are sold the idea of “happily ever after” from the moment we first begin to learn about love. I come from a product o...
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KLYNESHIA- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 11, 2020 - I have twin boys with ADHD.
When they were younger (around 5 to 6 years old) I found it to be very frustrating, even...
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MELISSA- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 10, 2020 - My name is Melissa. I spent 12 years of my life in full blown addiction.
I carried the weight that comes with addicti...
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CRYSTAL- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 09, 2020 - “God only gives special needs children to special people.” We have all heard this quote. Though I firmly believe in God’...
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MEGAN- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 08, 2020 - Purpose, a word I often find myself angry at!
Why am I here? Why is my life so hard? What am I supposed to be doing? Ho...
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JESSICA S.- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 07, 2020 - I am a licensed master’s level social worker so you think I would have seen the signs sooner. I was diagnosed with fibro...
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JODY- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 06, 2020 - I have never dealt with grief, sorrow, heartache, or generally any situation that I felt was too heavy, very well. In my...
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THE POWER OF NO- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 05, 2020 - As the eldest of three siblings, I became accustomed to helping others that truly depended on me to make big and sometim...
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GLENDA- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 04, 2020 - I don’t care how strong you think you are, death can weaken and break you down.
I lost my dad in 2001 and it hurt me.
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JAMI- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 03, 2020 - May 3, 2020 makes 2 years since he went to prison..
15 is an exciting age in life right?
There’s a lot of things g...
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REAGHAN- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 02, 2020 - I had just entered my sophomore year of college with high expectations of completing the last three years of my educatio...
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THERESA- Mental Health Awareness Month
May 01, 2020 - He was only 22 years old. It has been 42 years and now that I am 61 I realize how young Jeff was. He was so young, but h...
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