Mental Health Awareness Month
Every day in May, a new box will appear featuring someone’s story. Click on the boxes below to read or listen to their full stories.
May 29
“We are happy to sponsor this important event through the Mental Health Collaborative” – The Ober Family
May 27
My Personal Mental Health Journey The journey of my mental illness started long before I even knew it as an illness that could be diagnosed and treated. The earliest that I remember of incidents that left deep scars in me is as early as 6 years old. Life during elementary to middle school. I used…
May 23
I’ve been You ask me of the places I have been.I tell you I did most of my travelingin my early, formative years. And like most travelers, I’ve learned from then Let me tell you where I’ve been. I’ve beenfrightened by my first sightsby nightmares that found mescreaming in the nightby the large, luminous distortionsof…
May 21
I have had anxiety my whole life. From my earliest school years, I can remember being so sick the night before the first day of school to being physically pulled from the car to go to school. I was still physically sick in junior high and high school, but I also had to map out…
May 19
Jeremy’s Story: Jeremy Michael Farrell 8/4/77-11/11/2019 My name is Cindy Farrell, I was a teen mother to 3 children. Jeremy was my middle child. By the time he was 1, he was unstoppable always on the move and always impulsive. When Jeremy went to Kindergarten his chair was taken away from him and he stood,…
May 17
My experience with mental health has been quite rich. I’ve experienced some low points in my life and they’ve taught me how to stay positive, be resilient, look out for myself and recognize when I need help from others. When I was only 12 years old I experienced a devastating loss. It was the first…
May 15
Elegy a world without poetsis like a night without the moon in a lovers eyesor perhaps like a day without the morning sunrisewaves without the tidesjoy without the sorrowswinds without the breeze ahh, poems are the expression of laughter and griefnames to emotions we need to speak, called feelings of kindness that mattersviolence to end…
May 12
My mental health has always been impacted in some way, ever since I can remember. From a young age, I did not have my mother or father present and that’s where it all started. My mom came to the USA looking for a better life, and looking to provide for me, at the age of…
May 9
“I have had body image issues since I was a young girl. I started dancing since I was 4 years old and stopped at 14 years old due to the fact that I was so overwhelmed with how my body looked. Constantly standing in front of a mirror in tight dance clothes caused strain towards…
May 7
THE DEPLORABLE BED My bed: I stare at it with disdain and disgust.My bed: a symbol of my lack of functioning, so much lost time, so many lost months and so many lost years. The bed that I hid in instead of playing with my kids, instead of being productive, instead of cooking meals, instead of…
May 3
I remember sitting at the kitchen table. I was working from home at the time. The sun was shining on my back and a neighbor was helping install a door into the great room. My children were at school and I was trying to focus on work so I could devote myself to them once…