Medication FREE
​ 3 months and 12 days! This is the amount of time since I've been medication free. What a feeling! A year ago, I would have never...
Recovery & Regrowth
I have officially been off ALL medication for 26 days! I feel freer than I ever have in my entire life. I’m not only free of the...
Hair Loss, Fluttery Vision, Speech Impediment, and Memory Loss
April 8, 2015 marked the day that my worst fears were confirmed. Those weird physical changes were most definitely side effects of the...
Bottoms Up! The Pill Cocktail
Anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic, anti-convulsant, sleep aids. For all my life, I believed all the above, wanting more than...
You Know Yourself Better Than You Think
We all have gone to doctors for one reason or another, been given a prescription, and have followed the doctor’s instructions for...
Pills, Pills, and More Pills
If you have been diagnosed with a mental illness such as clinical depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc.,...
Lost in a Downward Spiral
"The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live." Fast forward to May 2015 (eight months down the road)...
Treading in the Darkness
I told myself when I started this blog that I was going to write at least every other day, and it’s already close to 2 weeks since I’ve...
How Did I Get Here?
At the age of 15, I fell into a deep, unnerving darkness, and ever since then I have struggled to dig myself out. I’ve thought back to...
