Have you ever been told by health-care professionals, family members, friends or society in general that you can't or shouldn't do something because you have a mental illness? Of course you have, it just goes with the territory...but it shouldn't always. Yes, there are sensible things that we shouldn't do when we are in certain …
Family Isn’t Always Relative
I come from a small family. My parents had 3 children; however my middle sister died at 3 before I was born and my older sister was, well, older...by 8 years. By the time I was 9 she left to go to school in Edmonton, Alberta. We half joke that we were raised as only …
Faith and Mental Illness
I remember during my first 7 years in Saskatchewan, Canada, going to church every Sunday. I loved Sunday School and vaguely remembered learning about Jesus. Then we moved out west and for some reason we stopped going to church. I never really did find out why and it wasn't something a young girl asks...at least not …
Being Lydia! 