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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When Running From The Voices In Your Head Takes You Someplace New

Posted December 8, 202100:12:31

Avis Yarbrough considers herself “shy” and “timid,” someone who stays at home. But when she first started hearing voices in her late twenties,...

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Gabrielle Guillon has come a long way from growing up with depression and abuse as her constant companions; poetry has helped her heal.

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Onome felt a lack of support in her childhood, which quickly spiraled into depression, although it was hard to find treatment in Nigeria and Ghan, she...

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Cheyenne Ruiz spent much of her adolescence fighting panic attacks, working through depression, and pretending hallucinations weren’t happening. One...

A Goodbye Call in a Summer Afternoon: Noticing Suicide Warning Signs May Be the Difference Between Life and Death

Posted October 13, 2021

When her uncle called trying to give a cryptic goodbye, Thaís Freita noticed suicide warning signs and saved a life.