Mental Health Aloud

Mental Health Aloud


Latest Episodes

The Price of Freedom: Living With Borderline Personality Disorder
May 22, 2024

This mental health recovery story focuses on Jaclyn who remained misdiagnosed and misunderstood for years. Read more to learn about her journey with mental health and healing, through trauma, addictio

Uncovering Hope with Bipolar Disorder
May 15, 2024

Angela Wise, in her first published essay, writes about living with mental illness and finding hope with bipolar disorder.

Are You Game to Explore a Gamer’s Physical & Mental Health?
May 08, 2024

Gamer Mollie Evans writes about the unique challenges presented by Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and how it impacts her physical and mental health.

I Wouldn’t be Where I am Today (or Alive) if it Wasn’t for this one Thing I Did
May 01, 2024

Highly sensitive person Tree Franklyn writes about being born into the trauma of war and living with depression and deep sadness.

The Moment Everything Clicked: A Story of Unhealed Childhood Trauma
April 17, 2024

This mental health recovery story focuses on Makayla who experienced childhood trauma and abuse that has had long-term effects on her mental health. Read more to learn about her journey with mental he

Overcoming an Eating Disorder During the Pandemic Uncovers Deeper Wounds
April 10, 2024

Kaley Neal writes about her orthorexia eating disorder and exercise compulsion.

On The Ethics of Mental Health Clinicians With Their Own Diagnoses
April 03, 2024

Does battling with your own mental health diagnosis make you more or less qualified as a clinician? In this essay, Naomi Kunstler explores that question, and shares the price she paid to offer exempla

Trauma and how the Depressed Brain Pushes us into Social Isolation
March 20, 2024

The post-college search for interpersonal connection left Eleni Stephanides wondering: Maybe youre not someone who was meant for relationships. This, of course, was a falsehood put forth by her tra

Activism and Intentional Living Helped Me Manage My Eco-Anxiety
March 06, 2024

Julia Tannenbaum advocates for a better, cleaner, lovelier world while managing her eco-anxiety that threatened to derail her activism.

My Grande Mis-Comparison Between Mental Episodes and Abuse
February 21, 2024

Ashley Marie Berry endured trauma in an abusive relationship, on top of pre-existing mental health challenges and emerged hopeful.