Mental illness and suicide are still very stigmatized, most of the time no one wants to talk about it.

On a good day my faith is shaky at best, When everything is crashing down around me, I spend a very large portion of my time cursing God.

As it does with every headline, my stomach dropped and I fought back tears, because I can't believe this is still happening. I can't believe that we still see multiple headlines a month, sometimes a week, where there is yet another school or mass shooting.

This weekend tens of thousands of people participated in the #WhyIDidntReport Twitter storm that very quickly reached the top of the trending list and stayed there for hours.

Across the country, there are thousands — if not millions — of children being ripped away from their parents because they dared to seek asylum in our country.

When the Personal Achievement for a teen group was announced nearly everyone in the audience held their breath knowing this group of kids was the clear decision, this group of kids dealt with something no one should ever have to and came back to change the culture in their school to prevent something like this from ever happening again.