A high school teen I had not seen before came to our youth group discussion about mental health. Jacki admitted, “Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you. Sometimes it feels like the loudest...
My first panic attack happened as I walked into an eighth-grade classroom to begin instruction at 10 a.m. It felt like a giant boulder crushed my chest. I couldn’t breathe. A heart attack killed my father when he was 46 years old. I thought I was having a heart...
The only thing worse than struggling with mental illness is the shame that often accompanies it. “Most families are not prepared to cope with learning their loved one has a mental illness,” explains Mental Health America. “It can make us feel...
It is hard to ignore a co-worker whose eyes fill with tears during a meeting for no apparent reason. A colleague may angrily explode without provocation. A responsible colleague who was a model of timeliness arrives increasingly late to work or struggles to meet...
