Patrick Sallee’s road to sobriety was long and winding, but he’s a better man for traveling it. I spent a lot of time the last two and half years thinking about what defines me and what doesn’t. What ...

A stage 3 bowel cancer survivor who recently found out she was in remission writes a poem about maintaining her identity despite cancer. Cancer Does Not Define ME, Being Karen Defines ME. Cancer does ...

Part of me feels like I don’t really know myself. Or maybe it’s not that simple. I’ve been placed in so many different roles, in so many different environments, that I’ve learned to adapt depending on ...

SMA, which stands for Spinal Muscular Atrophy, occurs in one of every 6,000 births. Commentator Ben Mattlin has a SMA and is paraplegic. He is often asked what he would do if a cure became available.

For the longest time, I thought I was a depressive. Never mind that, actually, I was probably having more fun—and was less frightened of the world—than almost anyone else I knew. But because I felt ...

Sometimes we want to know who we are. However, do you realize that knowing yourself often requires being thoroughly and completely un-modern? Descartes famously said, “I think therefore I am”, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. Read our full commerce guidelines here. As she approaches 70, Lyn Slater, AKA The Accidental Icon is living her best her life, ...

For the first time, Mariah Carey is letting fans know she has bipolar disorder. The singer revealed her 2001 diagnosis to People magazine in an article published Wednesday morning. The outlet reports ...