Throughout history, we as a society have collectively decided to rename epidemics after marginalized communities, primarily non-white countries.

I "had faith" more out of obligation than anything, and as I got older, out of fear.

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.