It’s Already Over?! | Shattering Stigmas 4.0 Wrap-Up
My fellow hosts and I have been planning this event since September, and now it’s October 21st, and Shattering Stigmas 4.0 is officially over. I would have posted my wrap-up yesterday, but it has been a long, anxiety-filled weekend for me. So now that I have time I’m just going to spew all the thoughts […]
Messy Fiction by Kitty @ Jellyfable | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
Content Warnings: mentions of vomit, menstruation, dermatillomania/self-harm A few years ago, I went to see the Everything, Everything movie in theaters. When I walked out of the theater, I turned to my date and told them the most unrealistic thing about the story was how pretty Amandla Stenberg looked when her character was sick. Laying […]
Playlist: Songs About Mental Illness | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
Today, I wanted to share some songs about mental illness that I’ve found to be well-written, super relatable, or just spot-on in a way that I may not be fully able to appreciate but think that others could. While compiling this list, I tried to keep a list of songs that came from varied identities […]
Job Hunting While Nonbinary by Dan Hunsaker | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
Most folks I’ve talked to, even those without mental health concerns, experience some amount of stress over searching for work. Tracking down a new employer takes a significant amount of time, effort, and often rejection. The general consensus seems to be, among my tiny sample size as much as popular entertainment, that job hunting is […]
Book Recommendations by Sav | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
Hey everyone, I’m Sav and before I get started with recommending some books, I want to briefly talk about my own experience living with mental illnesses. Ever since I was young I’ve always known I had anxiety, and now I’ve discovered that I have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) along with panic disorder and depression. It’s […]
An Open Letter To Depression by Meggan Turner | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
You haven’t taken enough already? Taking my every last ounce of happiness, and every last good memory away from me wasn’t enough? Was giving you every single tear I had, every single piece of my heart, every single smile I had not good enough? You are a killer. You are a murderer. You are cruel. […]
The Anxiety Of Coming Out by Ben Ace | Shattering Stigmas
Author’s Note: Yesterday (October 10th) was World Mental Health Day, and today (October 11th) is National Coming Out Day. I like that these days come right next to each other because it makes for a good way to talk about the intersections between queerness and mental health. Granted, you can intersect mental health with any […]
Mental Health From a Kenyan Perspective by Yvonne Wabai | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide This year, it was reported that the rate of suicide in Kenya had hit a ten-year high, rising by 58% between 2008 and 2017. Depression has been pinpointed as the cause of the 7000 yearly suicides in Kenya. Looking at the news, it’s not hard to tell that things are […]
A poem by Gretchen Gomez | Shattering Stigmas 4.0
Gretchen Gomez is a Puerto Rican poet from The Bronx. When home you will find her watching crime shows, cuddling with her dog, or writing—trying to make sense of things. Gretch is a full-time lover of words. She is the author of love, and you and welcome to ghost town which comes out on October […]
Welcome to Shattering Stigmas 4.0
I feel like I’ve been talking about and planning for this event forever. Now that it’s here, it doesn’t feel real, but oh my goodness do we have a lot in store for all of you. If you haven’t been following along too closely, by “we” I mean me, Tay, Madalyn, Kitty, and Marie. The […]