Resources
Depression & Suicide: Lived Experience
Explore real conversations about depression, suicidal thoughts, suicide prevention, and lived experiences of mental health challenges. Hear from survivors, advocates, and professionals about finding support, reducing stigma, and moving toward recovery.
Showing Up When You’re Not Okay: Therapy, Medication & Healing Without Perfection with Kelly Uchima
Kelly talks honestly about living with depression, anxiety, burnout, and Bipolar II while navigating therapy, medication, difficult experiences within the mental health system, and the pressure to keep functioning when you’re struggling.
Good for: someone who looks like they’re “doing fine” but is struggling underneath, or anyone trying to understand treatment, medication, and imperfect healing.
Sam Eaton’s Journey From A Suicide Attempt to Mental Health Advocate
Sam shares his experience battling depression and suicidal thoughts, including how a suicide attempt shaped his path toward becoming a mental health and suicide-prevention advocate.
Good for: someone living with depression or suicidal thoughts who needs to hear a story of survival and what can come after.
How Self-Harm Becomes a Survival Tool, Not Attention-Seeking with Katie May
Katie May brings both lived experience and professional insight to a conversation about depression, chronic suicidality, self-harm, and emotional validation. It also explores how to support someone who is struggling without dismissing or trying to “fix” their pain.
Good for: someone living with depression or self-harm, or a loved one trying to understand what they’re experiencing.
8 Billion People In The World and It Only Takes 1 To Change It with Ariella Sharf
A lived-experience story about severe depression, psychiatric hospitalization, and turning a difficult mental-health experience into advocacy and purpose.
Good for: anyone looking for hope after experiencing depression or a mental-health crisis.
How to Cope With Depression Without Feeling Alone with Russ Jones
A candid conversation about what depression can look like behind closed doors, self-harm, isolation, ADHD, and finding coping strategies that actually help.
Good for: anyone experiencing depression who feels alone or struggles to ask for help.
Breaking Down The Stigma on Depression and Treatment Options with Dr. Natalie Dattilo
A clinical psychologist explains depression, its symptoms and subtypes, common misconceptions, and evidence-based treatment options.
Good for: anyone trying to understand depression or figure out what professional support might look like.
Suicide Survivor, Emma Benoit Spreading Hope
Emma shares her experience surviving a suicide attempt, living with depression and anxiety, and discovering a purpose in suicide prevention.
Good for: people looking for a survivor story centered on hope, recovery, and prevention.
From 3 Suicide Attempts To Mental Health Advocate: Meet Herbie Mack
A personal conversation about surviving suicide attempts, finding support, and turning lived experience into suicide-prevention advocacy.
Good for: someone who wants to hear what recovery and life after a suicide crisis can look like.
Herbert’s Story: From Depression To Mental Health Speaker
A lived-experience conversation about moving through depression and becoming a mental-health advocate.
Good for: anyone interested in how a difficult mental-health experience can become part of a recovery and advocacy journey.