The Blog

Meet Olivia Griffith​, an Ohio University​ student sharing her incredibly BRAVE story on how she’s living with anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders and suicidal thoughts.

Meet Natalie, a Miami University student who’s living with anxiety, depression and has experienced anorexia in her past. After seeking treatment, she’s proving that she’s no longer a prisoner to her illnesses and is brave enough to share her story.

Meet Dakota, a student at the University of Dayton living with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders all while still proving she’s more than her mental illness.

Meet Eryn, a senior at the University of Cincinnati. She’s brave enough to share her journey with general anxiety disorder, intermittent depression, and ADHD and explains how working through her diagnosis made her feel.

Meet Jessica as she shares the story of her struggle with bipolar disorder, alcoholism, grieving her father’s passing, and the moment she realized she had a choice to survive.  Stay tuned for part 2 of Jessica’s story where she speaks on the impact her struggle had on her family.

I thought life was great. I was chasing this idea of perfection and as I chased that idea of perfection, I lost myself. For me what I was surprised about my depressive episode is that it came when I thought I finally had created that perfect life.

I live with anxiety and have experienced depression. When I was going through this I felt like I was the only one. I felt like I didn’t have anyone to understand what I was going through. But once I got through I noticed there were so many other people that understood and were there for me.

I live with anxiety and have experienced depression, self harm and suicidal ideation. Depression numbed me but anxiety made me fear that numbness. It felt like I was just a shell of myself. In the 8th grade I realized I need to get help. My mom walked through the fire with me. I realized you have to let people be …

Mental illness  is very complex. We want to assign illnesses to specific characteristics and labels. If you don’t fit into the box we invalidate the person or deny them the support they deserve. I think it is convenient to label people then expect them to act out in a certain way.

I live with bipolar disorder. It started in middle school. I was starting to sleep alot more than normal, I didn’t want to hang out with my friends, I wasn’t motivated to do my school work. It progressively got worse. It became really bad my sophmore year in high school. I was completely a slave to my bipolar disorder. I …