Over the summer of 2018, I started struggling with depression and anxiety to the point where I didn’t leave the house. I had applied to colleges near my hometown. I didn’t get into any of them. That was really a hit to my self-esteem. I was basically living in my room and leaving to get…
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I am finally able to make peace with the idea that I am who I am “…[Skyland Trail] truly pushed my limits and made me into a much stronger and wiser person than I was three months ago.” When I came here I was an internal mess. I had been hospitalized twice in the past…
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Skyland Trail got results, when no one else did Skyland Trail was our family’s last resort to help our youngest daughter. We felt like we had tried everything and we did not know where else to go. “Bottom line is: Skyland Trail got results, when no one else did.” Our daughter’s diagnosis was elusive,and she…
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Better Equipped to Face Challenges “You have gotten him here, and he is safe. Now rest and let Skyland do its work.” That was the kind reassurance we received from other parents and family members on our first night at STEP, when we were exhausted and reeling from the effects of our son’s crisis. In…
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Facing the Challenge of Bipolar Disorder “Snowboarding and golf, that’s me,” says 21-year-old Wyatt M. His dad took him to snowboard in the Blue Ridge mountains north of their home in Richmond, VA, when we was 12. Now a student at Virginia Commonwealth University, Wyatt spends almost every winter weekend snowboarding with his friends. “I’m…
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