I Am Not Weak
I’ve often wondered what drove me to have those wicked thoughts of wanting to commit suicide. Did I, in fact, have a mental illness?...
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- Sep 28, 2019
- 10 min
I Came Back to Tell You to Fight
I was a very reclusive child and a runaway kid. There was already so much going on inside my head and I couldn’t handle the overload...
- Sep 27, 2019
- 7 min
The Light That Shows Me the Way
I remember one time my brothers and I had to avoid drops of blood splattered on the pavement that followed our path to school...
- Aug 1, 2019
- 9 min
Exhale and Recover
If you didn’t know, The Troubles refer to a nasty civil dispute that spanned over 30 years between the British and Irish...
- Jun 11, 2019
- 7 min
When the Sky Is Gray
I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...
- May 16, 2019
- 8 min
Wildly Unique
What makes a person unique? One just has to look up at the night sky. Just as each star differs from all the others, each of us...
- Mar 29, 2019
- 7 min
Ever After
I grew up in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hawaii, floating back and forth between the three places to see my father who was an influential...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 5 min
I Do Not Keep Them Hidden Any Longer
As a young girl, my parents sensed that things weren’t right with me. I would jump back and forth between doing things. I would start...
- Jan 22, 2019
- 7 min
To Rise
In 2008, my whole world imploded. Everything I thought was supposed to take place in my life, bar the details, was blown to smithereens...
- Jan 19, 2019
- 9 min
The Thinnest of Threads
I’ve always heard people say that nothing good ever happens after midnight. For the longest time I found that to be true of my birth...
- Dec 19, 2018
- 6 min
I Will Live on
I, on the other hand, was stubborn and lacked religious devotion, putting a gulf between me and my parents where I never felt as close...
- Apr 19, 2018
- 7 min
From Meek to Bold
If I were to give advice to the little girl that never stood up to anyone and felt alone much of her life, I would tell her that it’s...
- Feb 9, 2018
- 7 min
Darkness Breaks
Everything I had touched in my life had so far become a disappointment, and I wanted to end it all.
My life flashed before my eyes as I...
- Feb 9, 2018
- 5 min
A Warrior, Not a Worrier
But thoughts of death don’t just go away. They linger like the plague. They interject themselves at every turn and persuade you that life...
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