"Pay attention kids...look up here at the front of the class. We are having a contest between the other classes. The winners of this contest will get a pizza party!" We're all familiar with these food drives that take place every year. "Which ever class brings in the most canned goods this week is going to get a pizza party, so be sure to let your parents know." This is great motivation for children to go home and let their parents know it's time for them to clean out their cupboards and pantries. Get rid of all that processed ucky canned food that nobody wants to eat. Grab those fat cut ucky green beans mom bought last year, she forgot to make it. We always think we can put a face to the person, family, or group that's going to receive your unwanted old cans that have sat in your pantry for the last year. What's worse than stereotyping the face behind the food donation drive? It's not taking a second to even stop to think about putting a face...

   SOMEONE HEAR MY SILENCE  Fighting back the tears, trying to grasp at your voice, determined to empower your body to move...to just pick up the pen to write something down, the voice in your head tells you, "Pick up the pen, write it down, make a note, it's so easy to move your hand toward the pen...pick it up!" Yet nothing, no movement, no thought as to how this will play out, your brain says, "What's the point? There's no point." You know you don't matter, nobody cares if you're alive, you don't even care if you're alive, everything is all wrong, if fact just being on this earth, being alive feels wrong. It feels like you're a prisoner of your own mind and body. It's said that depression is a mental struggle. Struggle? It's more than a "struggle." It's overwhelming when you can't breathe and there's the weight of an elephant on your chest, it's impossible to push something as heavy as an elephant ...

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