Category Archives: reflections

Having Mental Illnesses and Being a Mama is the Hardest Thing I Have Ever Gone Through

By Kendra Kantor | Published 11/19/2013

For the last 15 months, the depression and anxiety I’ve suffered in various forms for almost all of my life has been the most severe. My mental health has been debilitating and harsh and all consuming. For the last 15 months, I’ve been a mama for the first time to a beautiful little boy named […]

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Labeled: My Official Panic Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder Diagnosis

By Kendra Kantor | Published 09/13/2013

When I was 13, I started seeing a therapist, a psychiatrist and went on medication. I’m not sure if there was an “official” diagnosis but my psychiatrist said I had clinical depression. I’ve been in and out of therapy and off and on medication since then and always told my new therapists and doctors I […]

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I am Surrounded, Yet I am Embracing

By Kendra Kantor | Published 08/30/2013

I’m sitting here with a knot in my gut, an all too familiar tale in this space, I know. Today, I am surrounded by overwhelm. I am surrounded with the thought that if I want to do everything 120% all the time, I need to outsource some things. I am surrounded with the doubt and […]

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