We want YOU to tell your story.
Tell Your Story
One of the most powerful things you can do for yourself and for others is to Tell Your Story.
“Be The Change!”
– China McCarney
This is what we hope to help facilitate here at AAAD. We want YOU to tell your story. We want you to help us create a functional community where everyone realizes that you CAN live a successful life while fighting a Mental Health battle. It is not a negative. It is just a part of life. Share your story in 500 words or less about how Anxiety and/or Depression has impacted your life and how you continue to push and live life. Submit your story with a photo of yourself and we will post it here on the Tell Your Story page. Encourage others to do the same and comment on stories that you relate to. BE THE CHANGE!
My Mental Health Story (so far)
In the summer after fifth grade, I was in the car with my family driving up to Niagara Falls. All of a sudden, I felt my throat clench up and I couldn’t eat, drink, or even swallow. The lump in my throat was overwhelming and soon I began to lose my breath. I had never...
College Baseball and the Journey Through My Brain
I am a retired NCAA D1 pitcher and my brain was the toughest hitter I ever faced. When playing competitive baseball as a teenager in a sport that promises failure, my teenage brain struggled to handle the pressure. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and depression...
40 Plus Years of Overcoming Depression
Many have said they can’t imagine ever being so down as to want to kill themselves. Others of you understand all too well what depression in its severest forms can do to your thinking. The self-hatred, the loss of hope, the inability to find joy and happiness in...
Life After Sports: My Mental Health Story
On April 8, 2016, I read a Facebook post reporting that Ex-Kansas University football player Brandon Bourbon committed suicide. “Oh no…no, no, no,” I whispered back at the screen. You would have thought I knew him. You would have thought we were related by the rush of...
My Story and Founding AAADF.org
By China McCarney My name is China McCarney and I have been blessed with an anxiety disorder. How can you say that? “Blessed” with an anxiety disorder? Of course I did not always look at my anxiety disorder as a blessing. I had my first panic attack 8 years ago and...
Kayleigh’s Story
I have battled more at the age of 25 than most humans do in a lifetime. Take a moment to think of the most dreadfully painful experience you have had – I can empathize with you. In my life, I have overcome two near death experiences. One at the age of 11 which left me...
Stephanie’s Story
Sitting down to write my story brought on a crazy mix of emotions. I was nervous, anxious; I didn’t know what would come out. But, why the fear and anxiety? Why is everyone so afraid of what others think of them? Why is judgment and perception the driving force behind...