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My Shared Feelings – Poems
by Breaking Taboo | Mar 1, 2022 | Community Stories
My Synesthesia Causes Me to Hear Colors and Taste Sounds
by Breaking Taboo | June 17, 2025 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
We all know what our senses are and how we use them every day, but what if you could hear colors and taste sounds? This connection between senses is called Synesthesia, and some people have this complex condition inside their minds. Synesthesia is a mental condition...
Media’s Romanticization of Mental Health Conditions
by siteadmin | May 17, 2025 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
In contemporary culture, there are many subgenres and niches available for consumption online. Information now being so readily available has produced a new wave of awareness for young people. Concepts that were once reserved for strictly academic contexts now run...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
by Breaking Taboo | April 21, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments
April is typically a time in the year that can symbolize new beginnings or hope for the future. This month also happens to represent Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), which poses an opportunity for survivors to share their testimonies with greater recognition....
In Plain Sight: A Focus On the Mental Health of Human Trafficking Survivors
by Breaking Taboo | April 18, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments
It’s been estimated that are 27.6 million individuals trafficked worldwide at any given time regardless of age, background, or nationality (United States Department of State, 2023, p. 1). Such a statistic shifts focus to how traffickers will exploit one for their own...
Inside the Cuckoo’s Nest: My Time in a Psych Ward
by Serena Sun | September 16, 2024 | Articles | 0 Comments
My only knowledge of psych wards growing up was from movies. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Girl Interrupted, etc. I never knew anyone who had personally been admitted, or at least no one honest about it. My high school in Hartford, CT was...
The loss of someone you don’t know: How Matthew Perry’s death affected me
by Breaking Taboo | January 26, 2024 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
I was in elementary school when I first watched an episode of Friends. I was immediately drawn to the character of Chandler. We were both awkward. We were both funny. We both had problems. He was one of my first TV crushes after Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I became...
The Effects of Schizophrenia and Depression on Everyday Life
by Breaking Taboo | January 9, 2024 | Articles, Depression | 0 Comments
Schizophrenia is a life-long mental health condition that affects the way someone perceives reality, and can include various symptoms including experiencing delusions and or experiencing hallucinations. Depression is a mental health condition that negatively affects...
Mental Health In the Work Place
by Breaking Taboo | December 12, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
Before diving in, I’d like to explain my word choice. Instead of “Mental Illness,” I will refer to it as “Mental Health Challenges.” I don’t like to use terms like “illness,” “issues”, or “problems.” The reason being is, unlike physical ailments, mental health plays a...
What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?
by Breaking Taboo | November 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
Mood swings during stressful times are natural, but those living with a mood disorder like bipolar (BP) or personality disorder like borderline (BPD) have extreme, erratic, and sometimes irrational changes in their mental state. A lot of symptoms overlap, but these...
How to Practice Self-Care if You Have PCOS
by Breaking Taboo | October 18, 2023 | Articles | 0 Comments
It's all too easy to feel alone and helpless when living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). This condition, which affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age, disrupts your hormone and metabolism systems, and the symptoms include increasing your amount of body hair,...
My Synesthesia Causes Me to Hear Colors and Taste Sounds
by Breaking Taboo | June 17, 2025 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
We all know what our senses are and how we use them every day, but what if you could hear colors and taste sounds? This connection between senses is called Synesthesia, and some people have this complex condition inside their minds. Synesthesia is a mental condition...
The loss of someone you don’t know: How Matthew Perry’s death affected me
by Breaking Taboo | January 26, 2024 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
I was in elementary school when I first watched an episode of Friends. I was immediately drawn to the character of Chandler. We were both awkward. We were both funny. We both had problems. He was one of my first TV crushes after Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I became...
Mental Health In the Work Place
by Breaking Taboo | December 12, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
Before diving in, I’d like to explain my word choice. Instead of “Mental Illness,” I will refer to it as “Mental Health Challenges.” I don’t like to use terms like “illness,” “issues”, or “problems.” The reason being is, unlike physical ailments, mental health plays a...
What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?
by Breaking Taboo | November 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
Mood swings during stressful times are natural, but those living with a mood disorder like bipolar (BP) or personality disorder like borderline (BPD) have extreme, erratic, and sometimes irrational changes in their mental state. A lot of symptoms overlap, but these...
My Synesthesia Causes Me to Hear Colors and Taste Sounds
by Breaking Taboo | June 17, 2025 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
We all know what our senses are and how we use them every day, but what if you could hear colors and taste sounds? This connection between senses is called Synesthesia, and some people have this complex condition inside their minds. Synesthesia is a mental condition...
Media’s Romanticization of Mental Health Conditions
by siteadmin | May 17, 2025 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
In contemporary culture, there are many subgenres and niches available for consumption online. Information now being so readily available has produced a new wave of awareness for young people. Concepts that were once reserved for strictly academic contexts now run...
The loss of someone you don’t know: How Matthew Perry’s death affected me
by Breaking Taboo | January 26, 2024 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
I was in elementary school when I first watched an episode of Friends. I was immediately drawn to the character of Chandler. We were both awkward. We were both funny. We both had problems. He was one of my first TV crushes after Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I became...
The Effects of Schizophrenia and Depression on Everyday Life
by Breaking Taboo | January 9, 2024 | Articles, Depression | 0 Comments
Schizophrenia is a life-long mental health condition that affects the way someone perceives reality, and can include various symptoms including experiencing delusions and or experiencing hallucinations. Depression is a mental health condition that negatively affects...
Mental Health In the Work Place
by Breaking Taboo | December 12, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
Before diving in, I’d like to explain my word choice. Instead of “Mental Illness,” I will refer to it as “Mental Health Challenges.” I don’t like to use terms like “illness,” “issues”, or “problems.” The reason being is, unlike physical ailments, mental health plays a...
What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?
by Breaking Taboo | November 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
Mood swings during stressful times are natural, but those living with a mood disorder like bipolar (BP) or personality disorder like borderline (BPD) have extreme, erratic, and sometimes irrational changes in their mental state. A lot of symptoms overlap, but these...
A Psychotic Mind: My History of Schizophrenia, Self-Harm, and Suicide Attempts
by Breaking Taboo | September 20, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments
*Trigger warning: Self-harm and suicide attempts As a child, I remember being happy, I remember feeling safe, but after my parent's divorce, I remember feeling so much anguish and pain. For me, self-injury was activated by my parent’s divorce. I was 11 years old when...
How Does Attention and Imagery Ability Relate to Emotion?
by Mona Saii | September 1, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments
It seems evident that the depth that individuals feel and emotionally respond toward stimuli ebbs and flows. Consider, for example, how a person experiences deep elation and joy when listening to their favorite song yet later experiences a dulled affective response...
Mental Health IS physical Health, Exercise Boosts both!
by Serena Sun | August 21, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
Mental Health IS health. I’ve always said that, because it’s the truth. We can’t separate the two. Just like physical health IS health, mental health is health. I could actually argue that mental health might be even more so, since every single function in our body...
Mental Health Disparities in the LGBTQI+ Community
by Anna Mikel | June 22, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments
Among the many health disparities, a glaring one is the higher rate of mental health disorders in people who identify as part of the LGBTQI+ community. Widespread social and political discrimination have caused disproportionately high rates of poverty, homelessness,...