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Growing Up with Someone Growing Up with Mental Illness

When I was 14, my sister told me a secret. “I pull out my hair,” she said, laying in the bed across from mine in our little room. “I don’t know why I do it, but I can’t stop.” She had developed trichotillomania, a Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior characterized by uncontrollable urges to pull hair from the body.

Our StoriesVictoria HelrigelNovember 10, 2018mental illness, trich, trichotillomania, familyComment

I Cannot March But I Can Stand

On Saturday, people around the nation converged to march for reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, civil rights, disability rights and so much more. I was not one of them. Not for a lack of desire, not for a lack of passion, but for my own mental well-being.

Our StoriesAnna LearisJanuary 21, 2017women's march, mental illness Comment

Finding Reality

I can’t remember my mother without schizophrenia. I still remember the first day that she was hospitalized. It was a few days before my ninth birthday when she suddenly began spewing incoherent nonsense.