Stories of Lived Experience
RURAL VoiceS
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Perhaps you would like to share your personal story about managing a rural mental health challenge while leading a community conversation or slide presentation that includes information about the state of mental health in rural America and the work that’s being done through Rural Minds to provide free mental health information and resources to confront the rural mental health emergency.
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A Small Town Saga
Since college I’ve moved around a lot, from small towns to big cities and back. Most of the time it was for a career move. Other times it was out of desperation to get better health care for my son or myself. It all started in my home town during the sixties and seventies. (It was a town of around 9,000.) A lot has been said about the innocence of this time and place, but, believe me, darkness could be found just around the corner.