The word purpose carries many connotations; it’s different for everyone. Personally, I am not sure if I have one singular purpose in my life. On the contrary, I know that I love spending my time volunteering for a variety of causes that I believe in. I remember one of the first times I did volunteer […]
Robin Williams was able to make me laugh before I even knew who he was. We can't bring him back, but we can talk about the illness that made him take his life.
I had a general idea of what it meant, but it wasn’t until I had firsthand experience with mental illness that I fully grasped the meaning of stigma.
I felt that mental illness was a blemish on my image, the equivalent of getting an F in school.