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Mental Health

10 Ridiculously Simple Things I Can’t Seem To Do Because Anxiety

February 8, 2016August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch33 Comments

I'm going to do nothing, Facebook. Because if I wish one friend a happy birthday, I have to wish all of them a happy birthday.

Mental Health

How Mental Illness Changed the Way I Feel About Birthdays

November 21, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch24 Comments

Celebrating the fact that you exist can seem so asinine when you wish that you didn't.

LGBTQ/LGBTQIA/Mental Health

Why I’m “Out” as a Person with Mental Illness

May 24, 2015September 15, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch1 Comment

Content notice: suicide. This piece was originally published at The Body Is Not An Apology. Far and away, the most…

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You Are Not a Burden, and 4 Other Things I Wish I’d Known About Mental Illness

May 17, 2015January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch11 Comments

Illustration by Jessica Krcmarik. This might as well be part two, because quite a while back, I wrote a pretty…

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I Take “Crazy Pills” and I Am Not Ashamed

January 30, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch20 Comments

[The illustration features a place mat with an array of breakfast foods and coffee. A pair of arms rests on…

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Mental Health

I Have Generalized Anxiety and I’m Anxious Just Thinking About It

January 17, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch14 Comments

[The illustration features a house, seemingly unstable, perched precariously upon a cliff. The author, Sam Dylan Finch, is standing at…

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