For almost 20 years, I held the secret of my trauma. I was 5 years old when I was sexually abused. Too young to comprehend or process the magnitude of my experience, I turned to…

I grew up in a beautiful suburb in New Jersey. Had two parents who loved me unconditionally and raised me with morals and values that would set anyone up to be successful at life. I…

Imagine that your day starts not as normal as everyone else’s, but like a daily fight with your own mind and your own thoughts. Most people don’t understand how difficult it is to deal with…

I have to get something off my chest. I am a “nice guy”. Let me rephrase that. No, not just a nice guy, I am a person with the “nice guy syndrome”.  Let me explain.…

I had my first drink at the age of 14. It did not take long for me to fall in love with the feeling of being drunk. After a long week of school, drinking became…

At the start of my senior year of high school, my family and I moved from a cookie cutter, suburban neighborhood where I  had grown up to a small town in the middle of nowhere.…

Decompensation: Psychology, a loss of ability to keep up normal psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions. Dictionary.com One of my favorite literary descriptions of a psychiatric decompensation is in the 1933 short…

Learning to understand who I was, why I felt and thought the way I did, it was the hardest journey of my life. Making the milestone to then accept every part of me, was liberating.…