Mental Health Aloud

OC87 Recovery Diaries, is an online publication that features stories of mental health, empowerment, and change. Each week on Mental Health Aloud, Editor in Chief Gabriel Nathan will read aloud our latest mental health recovery essay. Gabe’s gentle, welco

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Learning to Prioritize Mental Health and Self-Care through a Traumatic Experience

Posted March 16, 2022 • 00:15:49

This mental health recovery story focuses on Andrea’s journey after an incident of unwanted touch in a public place. Andrea felt anger, confused,...

Long-Distance Running and Long-Running Depression: An Enduring Partnership

Posted March 9, 2022 • 00:12:42

Eleni Stephanides has learned how to run with depression, instead of running from it.

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A New Psychiatric RN Faces Her Career, and her own Mental Health

Posted March 2, 2022 • 00:08:37

As someone who lives with panic disorder, OCD and anxiety, Caitlin Irish is uniquely positioned to help people as a psychiatric nurse, and uniquely...

Walking through Life with Grief

Posted February 9, 2022 • 00:08:56

Losing people is always hard; for Amanda Wolf, the grief and loss following the deaths of a close friend and her grandfather threatened to overcome...

Magical Thinking as Trauma Response: How I Created Safety through Imagination

Posted January 26, 2022 • 00:14:29

Faced with traumas before unimagined, Laura turned to the tool of magical thinking to create safety after ongoing experiences of trauma.

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