Mental Health Stories
Thank you for your interest in sharing your mental health story with the community through the Suffer Out Loud blog.
We know that sharing experiences can be part of healing, but it can also make things feel fresh and raw all over again — please so let us start by saying thank you for your willingness to tell your story we commend you for your courage.
Adding your experience to this collection of mental health stories may reach someone who needs to feel less alone. It may make someone feel like it’s okay to say “I’m not well, I need help.” Sharing your story helps change our whole culture, making it okay to Suffer Out Loud.
A few tips to remember as you get started…
Just get to writing, we can go back and edit it with you after you get it all out.
Names and identifying details can (and often should) be changed to protect privacy. This may also make you feel safer about sharing.
If speaking your story feels more natural, tell it to a friend and record it, then go back and type it up and edit it.
You can connect with a member of the Suffer Out Loud team and tell us your mental health story, and we can write it up for you.
When you are ready, submit your story here: hello@sufferoutloud.org with the subject line: Suffer Out Loud Story.
We will let you know when we post it to the blog.
Please note that we may edit your mental health story for clarity and our own editorial guidelines. For example, this might mean your title will be changed or certain language will be removed. If we’ve made significant changes, we’ll run our edits by you first. We don’t want to misrepresent your voice or message.
Also, unfortunately, we can’t publish every story or blog post that we receive. Please don’t take us turning down a story as us saying your mental health stories don’t have value. We have a small team currently, but we hope to one day have the capacity to utilize and share every story we receive. Please know that your story has so much worth, and we are grateful for your trust in sharing it with us.