Calls for therapy “She needs therapy,” someone whispered, followed by silent but adamant head nods by coworkers huddled in the break...

How many times I would hear these words ringing in my ear from such a young age, and all throughout my life, “You need to get some help.”...

Warning: my language choices are not so polite in the rest of this article, BUT there are kittens and puppies at the end. Let’s face it:...

My name is Noblelee Dawn Cook-Wright, and this is my story… I was born July 23,1974. I had an older sister who was 6, and an older...

There were two times in my life when I was at real risk of dying by suicide. The first time, I was 19 and actually tried. The second...

Let me start by saying suicide is a serious problem that can have lasting harmful effects on individuals, families, and communities....

I keep questioning if it’s possible to feel a true sense of belonging with others when we don’t feel right with ourselves, especially...

As far back as I can remember, I suffered from extreme self-esteem and self-love issues. When you combine a substance abuse disorder with...

What’s wrong with me??? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked myself this. I am reading In Search of Happiness: Understanding an...

What is wrong with you? What goes through your mind? Why do you act out? What is it going to take for you to just be normal? These...

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in...

Finding hope is a process. It moves like the ocean – ebbs, flows, crashes on me, suddenly slips away. Sitting with it long enough, it may...

“Now, take your eraser and erase everything you see,” Susan, my therapist, said to me. He was the first to go, of course. His looming,...

It was the summer after 8th grade: I was excited, and I had lots of friends and a boy I cared about. But my Dad forced me to go spend the...

Being expected to thrive on days you can barely survive. My alarm goes off, my eyes are puffy, my head is pounding. To say I was sleep...

Noblelee and I selected work and mental health as this week’s theme. I wrote and wrote and did what I could to wrap it up once I hit five...

I am supposed to write this piece about what the world would miss if I wasn’t here. Instead, I find my mind floating to all the doubts...

Many people are dealt different hands in life. There are some people that end up being less fortunate in life. And, sadly, some people...

MONSTER Push me - it will rise. Monster in me…you will see. Love and space, true, yes. Still, we bleed. I picture this monster in me...