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Why A Double Funeral On Your Birthday Is The Best Party You'll Ever Have
On the train up to the double funeral of my dead grandparents, who died five days apart after 60-odd years of marriage, I turned 29. In the clichéd, melodramatic way of people in their late twenties,...
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I Started Therapy So I Could Take Better Care Of Myself
I’m fiddling with the lid of my latte when a therapist asks, “So, Matt, why are you here?”The "here" in question is a room with white walls and lamps that paint them warm. I’m sitting on a couch next...
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What It's Like Explaining Depression To Your Asian Parents
Many Asian parents tend to practice tough love — but that makes it so much harder for someone struggling with depression. What actually happens: Charlotte Gomez for BuzzFeed What we wish would happen:...
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Here's What It's Like To Take Care Of Your Mental Health When You're Black
Mental illness can affect anyone, but for people of color, the experience of the illness itself is often compounded (or even caused) by racism, microaggressions, and community-specific stigma. Racism...
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Asking For Help In A System That Doesn't Speak Your Language
Will Varner / BuzzFeed So Ying Chan came to the United States with her husband in 1976 to raise her two grandchildren, Jeff and Jessica Man. The children’s parents worked several jobs and were rarely...
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What I Learned From My Neuroatypical Partner
Meredith Talusan / BuzzFeed News For our first date two years ago, Josh and I went to an interactive art show in Brooklyn, where an artist hugged people before taking pictures of their reactions. I...
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13 Powerful Stories About College Students Living With Depression
Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share their stories about how they deal with depression in college. Here are their powerful responses:1. "Having no friends there...
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Here's What It's Like When Mental Illness Affects A Relationship
We’re told that love conquers all. But sometimes antidepressants help, too. Always consult with your doctor about your personal health and wellness. BuzzFeed posts are for informational purposes only...
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Learning To Say The Word "Depression" Saved My Life
Jenny Chang / Via buzzfeed.com When I was at rock bottom, I’d joke that Dementors were trailing me. It was the only explanation for my waning ability to feel. I carried around bars of Dairy Milk like...
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Here's How Ten Countries Approach Mental Health
We asked our colleagues in ten BuzzFeed offices to talk about what mental health is like where they live. Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed The ways people perceive, talk about, and treat mental illness vary...
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How Intergenerational Lesbian Relationships Break All The Right Rules
According to their social media PDA, at least, actors Holland Taylor (age 72) and Sarah Paulson (age 40), are ridiculously, deeply in love. My colleague Sarah Karlan recently rounded up the sweetest...
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How A Decade Of Sobriety Finally Taught Me To Drink
Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Two months after I quit drinking, I fell dick-first into a fling with a co-worker at the bar where I collected glasses. She was 21, four years my senior. It was fun at first,...
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I Finally Found A TV Character Whose Depression Looks Like Mine
Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed / Fox I cried in the bathroom at work, always preferring the handicapped stall so I could stare out the window as I did. I cried on the subway, both ways, most often on the M...
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How I Survived Life With My Mother’s Addiction
One of my earliest memories is the feeling that my cheeks were very, very hot. Everything was in slow motion, and the feeling that I’d done something really bad was stronger than ever. I’d opened my...
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Tyler Oakley's Big, Incredibly Profitable Adventure
A scene from Snervous. snervous.com The other day, the 26-year-old YouTube star Tyler Oakley had just finished two weeks of shooting season 28 (yes, 28) of the CBS reality show The Amazing Race, and...
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My Year In Blackness
The blackest I felt all year was in early November, when I yelled the title of Ta-Nehisi Coates's book, Between the World and Me, in the general direction of Claudia Rankine. Ms Rankine – multiple...
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I Thought I Was Above Body Image Issues — Until I Lost A Lot Of Weight
Arianna Vairo for BuzzFeed News The scale at the gym was a dark blue platform with an LED display that blinked its way to a resolution that I then recorded in my phone. Before I learned not to look so...
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My Mother And I Finally Opened Up About Our Depression And Anxiety
Maritsa Patrinos / BuzzFeed My family often teases me for being too much like my mother. They say I look like her, that I dismiss people with the same stare of indifference. I know I inherited my love...
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In Defense Of Going Out
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed The other day, my friend in New York was complaining. This in itself is certainly not remarkable. What got my attention was the subject of his complaint: He and his roommates...
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How Growing Up Nigerian And British Taught Me To Be Both
I was 6 years old when I made the most significant decision of my life. While my peers were busy making tough choices in the tangled web of playground politics, I was being asked if I wanted to stay...
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