Category: Mental Health

  • Trigger warning: suicide

    If you’re going to die on your own terms, you had better fucking live first.

  • Does writing poetry make you sick? Taking on the big topics.

    One of my mother’s dance colleagues posted some poetry online about the floaters in his eyes. His wife picked up on this immediately and sent him to the hospital, as it turned out that he had severe corneal damage.

  • Schizophrenia in a nutshell

    As much as I wish I could explain this condition by clinical terms, I just don’t think it accurately depicts what it’s like to live with it. Think of it this way. Each person has a lens with which they get to see the world. Some thinkers are broad, others narrow. For most people, this…

  • Heart of a champion

    I coach badminton twice a week to an age demographic of young children to teens. And after a few years, I begin to understand why some teachers favor some students over others. It’s not a matter of “teacher’s pet.” What makes some kids over others is the personality and fortitude with which they choose to…