Misti W.
Samia Shahnawaz
My experience with mental illness really started around my freshman year of high school around thirteen years old.
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Pascal K.
Samia Shahnawaz
I was around 30 years old when I started having auditory hallucinations. At first I kept to myself and did not tell anyone, since I thought it would abate. At that time, I was studying in Canada, but noticed that I wasn’t able to focus my mind and my thoughts were drifting away.
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Samia Shahnawaz
My experience with mental illness started around twelve years old, when I was in the sixth grade. It started out quite small with simple comparisons between myself and the girls around my age.
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Samia Shahnawaz
My experience with Anxiety and Depression started around 7 years ago when I was 14. At the time I was living with an alcoholic mother in an unstable home. There were a lot of fights between my mother and my step dad.
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Samia Shahnawaz
I was first diagnosed with mental health issues at the early age of eight. My conditions were anorexia and ADHD and I spent a lot of time seeing a psychologist and having family therapy.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I suffer from PTSD, anxiety, and have had eating disorders as well. As a child I was sexually assaulted and bullied consistently through public school.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I have PTSD from a childhood trauma that I have never really dealt with. As a result, I experience severe flashback, depression, and anxiety. In addition, I also struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Neha Kinariwalla
My depression probably started in middle school where I have been bullied from beginning.
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Neha Kinariwalla
My experience with mental illness started January 2016. I didn't realize that I was suffering from depression until my family brought it to my attention out of concern for me. I was slowly shutting down in all aspects of my life.
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Neha Kinariwalla
In early 2014, my 39-year-old husband died suddenly. Without warning or consent, at 37 years old, I was a widowed single mother of 6 year old twins.
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Neha Kinariwalla
The past four years have been pure hell. I faced a battle of depression, social anxiety, low self esteem, and self confidence brought on by the diagnosis of Premature Ovarian Failure.
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Neha Kinariwalla
On the 30th of March 2014 I fell 3.5 stories from a building onto concrete in Sydney. The accident occurred at a friend’s house following my 28th birthday party evening.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I started having bipolar symptoms when I was 9 but my family didn't take me to doctor until I was 15.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I had always been an anxious child, but I was not diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder until I was 15.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I was diagnosed bipolar type 2 in 2009, as well as PTSD, C-PTSD, panic disorder w/o agoraphobia, anxiety, and ADHD. I've also been fighting chronic migraines since 1999.
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Neha Kinariwalla
My anxiety and problems handling stress started sometime during high school. I also have struggled with accepting and handling my emotions since I was fairly young.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I think I always had the signs of an anxiety disorder, growing up with a lot of trauma. My father raised me on his own until I was eight, all while battling a drug addiction and mental illness.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I first developed depression in my early teens after my family moved to another state.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I had never considered that I might have an anxiety disorder until my most recent therapist decided to keep calling it that.
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Neha Kinariwalla
I wouldn’t say life having epilepsy is a walk in the park, because every victim is affected in a different way. There are those who have small petite mal seizures, and then there are those who have grand mal seizures that are affected emotionally and physically, like myself.
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