shared stories – Bigger Than Depression

Is It Time To Revise The COVID Mental Health Narrative?

healthcare, mental health, recent, research, shared stories / March 28, 2023

There’s no arguing with numbers but that doesn’t mean that the recently released BMJ study suggesting the pandemic’s impact on mental health was negligible isn’t perplexing. The study’s authors, listed here, compared symptoms reported before and during the pandemic, finding “most symptom change estimates for general mental health, anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms were close …

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March’s Top 10 Research Stories

recent, research, shared stories / March 23, 2023

It’s time to dive back into the data! Here are my new and noteworthy picks for this month. Maybe it’s time to switch up your beverage of choice: new research from Kumamoto University suggests Japanese matcha tea powder improves symptoms of Depression. Through long-term observation of over 5k 9 and 10 year olds, a Yale …

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March’s Top 10 Research Stories

research, shared stories / March 28, 2022

Before a new season begins, I want to catch you up on news from the world of mental health research. I’ve decided to feature some POSITIVE studies because we (actually “I”), need the uplift as a bitter winter rages on. There is some devastating news in here like # 10…skip it if you’re already hurting …

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December’s Top 10 Research Stories

research, shared stories, video / January 3, 2022

The last month of 2021 didn’t have a single big story but that doesn’t mean we should sleep on the highlights. It’s my job to sift through the noise and find what matters–here’s the fruit of my labors (better late than never). Happy New Year, everyone. I have a feeling this is going to be …

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November’s Top 10 Research Stories

recent, research, shared stories / November 27, 2021

November saw further publication of studies about COVID’s mental and physical health impacts, one of which claims the toll is especially heavy on older adults. We learned about the byproducts of sustained discrimination from UCLA and saw more positive reviews of MDMA assisted therapy for PTSD, depression and anxiety. Peruse my greatest hits below and …

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Top 10 Research Developments in September

recent, research, shared stories / October 8, 2021

After Labor Day weekend, I consider it Fall. September was the shot of energy I needed; the desire to engage with research returned to me. The star of September’s show was the leak of internal Facebook documents, initially published by the Wall Street Journal, showing years of incriminating data obtained by the platform. Facebook’s studies …

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Creative Control by Elsie Ramsey

bipolar, hospitalization, shared stories, SMI / November 6, 2020

It has been three years since I started talking and writing openly about my Depression and life with a Bipolar 1 family member. Being transparent about my struggle has changed the rules of engagement in my conflict with mental illness. I discovered that by talking only to therapists and an inner circle for so long, …

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Misery Loves Company by Elsie Ramsey

community, shared stories / October 14, 2020

I want us to share our stories. I’m offering up mine in the hope that you’ll feel moved to share yours. I’m not a clinician and I don’t have the answers. But in the 20 plus years I’ve been dealing with the “black dog”, I have some hard-earned wisdom about what works for me. These …

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What Does Radical Self Love Mean? by Elsie Ramsey

growth, identity, shared stories / October 7, 2020

Today I listened to a message about ego. The Reverend Phil asked a congregation worshipping virtually — many likely disheveled and still in pajamas — ”what is the source of your righteousness”? Is it the clothes you wear? The restaurants where you (used) to eat? Your political affiliation? Your preferred streaming platform? That last one …

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Self Expression in Prison and Free: Sharon’s Story

recovery, shared stories / September 27, 2020

SharonProgram graduateFree since February 2007 While incarcerated, Sharon participated in Truth Be Told’s Talk to Me Movement and Let’s Get Real programs. Using the improvisational, body-centered practice of authentic movement, Talk to Me Movement invites women to write and embody the story of what they believe put them on a path to prison. Let’s Get …

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