Has anyone ever made you feel weak because of your depression or mental illness? Has your depression ever made you second guess your o...
I have a friend who asked me to write about how to react (and how not to react) when someone is grieving. This friend wants others to know...
"Why didn't it work out between the two of you?" "Because...she was crazy." I have lost count of the times I h...
Those who suffer from anxiety attacks show different symptoms. Sometimes it's talking fast or stuttering. Sometimes it's not tal...
"I'm so sorry that no one listened to you. I'm sorry that you had to suffer through that alone. I wish I could've helped,...
For many of us, we have a deep rooted belief that we don't deserve good things. Whether it's a toxic relationship, a dead-end job,...
I'm not one to use my blog to talk about politics. People get that in enough places. But, after everything that happened last night, t...
In the last couple months, I've watched the movies "Psycho," "Nightmare on Elm Street," "Scream 1," and ...
The movie "Swiss Army Man ," which was released on DVD earlier this month, opens with Hank (Paul Dano) alone on an island, stand...
About two-thirds of people with major depression never seek treatment, WebMD reports . It often times goes undiganosed or untreated becaus...
Two years ago, I started taking birth control for the first time. And I didn't understand why, all of the sudden, I felt like I was go...
I recently had a guy friend tell me, "Life would be easier if I was a woman." Wow. Let's all take a moment and reread tha...
Anyone who has ever suffered from a mental illness can especially relate to what author Stephen King says — "Monsters are real, and g...
By Emily Johnson Meant to Live Guest Writer A work environment is a place where failures often happen. Developing communication with the ...
I started watching Netflix’s “Stranger Things” this week. (I know, I know, most of you probably finished the whole season a month a...
When I was a kid, I would watch and re-watch the movie "The Wizard of Oz" over and over again. And, every time, at the end, I wou...
Those suffering from a mental illness shouldn’t have to just grin and bear it. There are many different options for treatment. Prescrip...
Last year, I got a semicolon tattooed on my inner ankle. A semicolon symbolizes a sentence you could have ended but choose not to. The r...
Do you think, if someone causes someone else's suicide, he or she should be charged with murder? This is what is happening in Minnes...
Millennials grew up in a world where every person they know is at their fingertips. We carry our whole universe in our back pocket or in o...
WARNING: IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW 'ME BEFORE YOU' ENDS, STOP READING NOW. The movie "Me Before You," based on the nov...
Anyone who knows me knows that, when it comes to my panic and anxiety disorder, I'm not shy about talking about it. But it hasn'...
"Remember that just because you hit rock bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there," actor Robert Downey Jr. says. Before...
There's a concept throughout my (almost) 28 years of life that's been one of the hardest for me to grasp — that, even if I don...
