Mental Health

Women living with HIV across the gender spectrum are more likely than women in the general population to experience challenges to their mental health.

Going into a new year, I don't want us chasing "inspirational." I want us choosing real. Messy. Honest. Boundaries over burnout. Silence when needed.

Whatever the individual reasons, many people's mental health suffers during the holidays. We offer this collection of resources as a holiday gift to our beloved community.

Have you ever felt like screaming and it's like nobody would hear you if you did?

Your fellow human beings can turn into your Judas Iscariot at any moment in this lifetime. Having friends who are pretenders and when a situation changes, immediately they switch you off.

Your life may be so noisy, so dark, trying to figure out how you got to that part. Walking back and forth wondering if you're coming or going.

Help and healing are possible. It starts with one act of surrender and one conversation with someone you trust.

"We focus on our health but often that’s not enough. What about living a full life in every sense? Women are burdened with many responsibilities and traumas."

When it comes to wellness, our individual actions are not the whole story. Learn more about factors affecting mental and behavioral health for women living with HIV.

I left—not because I wanted to, but because I had to. I left to live.

I don't see myself, I'm trying to rediscover myself. I want to feel like myself again.

Truth is, both forgiveness and the inability to forgive inhibit interpersonal relationships and growth and how we level up in life.

Read about how The Well Project blogger Louise Vallace found mindfulness practice after her HIV diagnosis, and watch a webinar version of her presentation on the topic from AIDS 2024.

Feeling low? Learn about depression – what it is, why women living with HIV are likely to have it, and why it is important to diagnose and treat it.

What do you do when the life you want so desperately to forget collides with the life you've created? You feel.

Being a Black woman and wearing the badge of honor of being strong is exhausting to say the least.

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