A picture of the flag that was draped over my father’s casket when he was buried at the age of 21. A heroin user who

This is water dripping from the faucet. The endless crying. The crying comes with being depressed and everything. Not sure if it was the increase

These crosses are very special to me, they represent my journey and have been given to me by my family, friends and church.  I look

I was raised in an Evangelical Household which meant that if you have a mental illness then you are not close enough to God. It

A picture of my alarm clock on my bed—One of the important things with me with my bipolar is just my sleep…Sleep is one of

It stands for NDSU and that for me personally, it is my long journey through everything in the last year. It reflects that I got

It is just one of the ways that they teach you to stop ruminating or stop doing what you are doing and to do something

Cross stitch. I have not told my mom about my mental illness and that is really hard. However, she is not really into that because

It’s pretty important to me now cause it has to go with me everywhere I go now. I do not want to know what would

Nursing school exacerbated my mental health problems. Through lots of close friends, I have found out there is much more to life and school than