"Dissociative Identity Disorder has brought me so much joy and comfort. I'm literally never alone."
I knew I was mentally ill pretty early on. I remember being in either sixth or seventh grade, and over one of my summers, I was just hit...
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Anonymous
- Mar 25, 2023
- 3 min
"I heard the nurse say, 'Let’s get this mental case to sleep.'"
I first began noticing something was wrong when I was a sophomore in high school. I started to chatter my teeth (shiver), vomit, and...
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Anonymous
- Jan 27, 2023
- 5 min
"I self-sabotage a lot because it feels easier than dealing with the negative emotions."
I am diagnosed with GAD and ADHD. It was probably at its worst when I started university. I struggled with feelings of depression as well...
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Anonymous
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
"With each day, it finds new ways to mess you up."
I can't pinpoint the exact moment I realised I had OCD. I've had symptoms for nearly as long as I can remember. Some of the earliest...
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Anonymous
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
"There's no magic bullet for Imposter Syndrome."
Imposter Syndrome. What does it feel like? In short, exhausting. I'd liken it to what it feels like to be continually on the run. Like...
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Anonymous
- May 21, 2022
- 3 min
"I just wish people knew how hard it is to actually live with anxiety and that it isn't an excuse."
I have both anxiety and panic attacks. For me, anxiety expresses a lot of physical symptoms and are usually built up beforehand, whereas...
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Anonymous
- Dec 29, 2021
- 7 min
"You’re one of the most nervous drivers I’ve ever seen and you’re not safe on the road."
For as long as I can remember, my life has been dominated by a very specific and embarrassing form of anxiety- driving anxiety. Even...
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Anonymous
- Dec 27, 2021
- 8 min
"I'd felt that I could just keep going and it would go away. It turned out that it didn't."
It's about 4am on a Sunday morning in June. I'm filling my time sat in a toilet, trying to calm myself from having what seems to be a...
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Anonymous
- Dec 22, 2021
- 3 min
"I was planning how I was going to kill myself the next morning while I was in bed."
When I was 19, I lost a close friend to suicide towards the end of my first year at university. He was a delightful young man who was...
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