My mental illness began to manifest itself when I was 19 years old. I began cutting and burning myself with cigarettes. I didn’t get help for my self-harming behavior and it steadily progressed throughout the years. Culmination in 2003 with
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I have schizophrenia and it was a challenge for me to get well again. I really wanted to get over the schizophrenia and I have been able to feel better now with painting. When I attended school each day with
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I have faced many obstacles in my life. I have struggled with depression, anxiety, and stressors. I have faced physical health struggles. To overcome these obstacles I reached out and started to receive services at Riverbend, along with taking my medicine,
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I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 19 and I have struggled daily, in every area of my life. The biggest struggles is because of my anxiety and psychosis. I am trying to do better by taking medicine and
Read more44 – Dancing like Michael Jackson
My name is Jhmiyas, I am 25 years old, from Dadeville, Al. I drew a picture of Michael Jackson because he is my favorite music artist. In this picture, Michael Jackson is on a stage at a concert singing the
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Since grade school I have wrestled with various learning disabilities that seemed to change my teacher’s perspectives of how I can perform academically. This motivated me to overcome and outperform. I graduated high school second in my class and even earned
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My name is Annette. I have been at Cahaba Center for a long time. I love to do crafts and paintings of any kind. Sometimes I am happy and sometimes I am sad. Last year I did a painting of
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I have faced many obstacles in my life related to my mental illness. Since I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, I have struggled with symptoms related to my illness and hospitalizations. I have also struggled because I do not feel like
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I am Herbert. I work with the Van Crew at Cahaba Center. I like to enter this program and showcase my painting and I like to enter showcases in the Dallas County Fair in October. We start on this very
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