Clearing My Head: Nichole’s Story

Patriarchal Christianity tried to kill what makes me, me, and it almost succeeded.

That Selfish Depression: By Quick Silver Queen

“People like my parents don’t understand that mental disorders are actual physical differences in someone’s brain. Most times it can be helped through medication, just like other physical ailments. It has to do with the balance of chemicals and hormones in one’s brain, and that’s nothing you can consciously fix any more than my dad can will away his ankylosing spondylitis.”

Mental Health — From Shame to Seeking Help, Part Two: Learning Shame in Childhood

“I had heard somewhere that depression was a medical problem, but this was generally dismissed as a lie perpetuated by people wanting to drag others away from God, while medicines that ‘supposedly’ helped with mental illness – depression especially – were even called witchcraft by a pastor at my church.”