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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleI Can't Live Without Fear, But I Can Learn To Be OK With It
Alice Monkongllite / BuzzFeed I can’t stop thinking about everyone I love dying.Not so much the fact of it, but really the unknowables — the manner of death, the timing, the aftermath. Some days I’m...
View ArticleTyler 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHere'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...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleHere'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...
View Article13 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleAsking 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...
View ArticleMy Therapist Wrote My Breakup Text
Michelle Rial / BuzzFeed News When you’ve been waiting for an important text message all week, a text message that could decide the fate of your relationship, the best place you could possibly receive...
View ArticleRunning Helped Me Cope With Depression, But Then I Got Injured
Michael Parkin for BuzzFeed News I wake to muted daylight, stubborn rays forcing their way through the curtains. My alarm, set to the tune of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” plays for a good 30...
View ArticleMy 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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