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Stockton University student, Lamia Dean, interviews someone who has been in recovery for 35 years.

In this interview we talked about my uncle’s mental illness. He is bipolar. He is able to control himself but knows he is bipolar in certain situations.

One Small Step participants Mary Connelley (63) and John Biedebach (54) discuss their careers in healthcare and the problems they see in the industry. They talks about their families and their relationship to religion. Mary and John also speak about...

Stockton University student Starr Drennen interviews someone who had a substance use disorder and is in recovery.

I sat down with Brendan today to talk about his mental Illness. He suffers from depression. After going through all the questions he felt better about opening up to someone after the interview.

Mental illness

• 0:00 - 0:00 . • 0:01 - 0:04 Who is in relation to you that you have lost to drugs? • 0:04 - 0:05 My uncle. • 0:06 - 0:08 Was it sudden or was there signs of the...

One Small Step conversation partners Dimple Dhabalia (47) and Tiffany Gray (43) exchange their lived experiences. They connect on their work in supporting vulnerable populations, and find they have a shared belief in listening to and learning from other people...

Interview with my Roommate on mental Illness, and her experience with it.

Liz, 22, interviews her mother Cindy, 45, about her father’s drug and alcohol addiction as she recalls it from her childhood. Liz- Who was the person in your family who was abusing drugs? Cindy- It was my father Liz- Did...

Tom (67) and Jerri (65), husband and wife, talk about their lives together and how their love and work lives have helped them overcome mental illness.

[Recorded: Friday, September 8, 2023] Jakenzie Fletcher-Thrower (17) from Virginia and Sydney Campbell (19) from Maryland participated in this One Small Step conversation as part of their Public Service Pathways 1-credit UNST course at UVA. Jakenzie shares her passion for...

In this interview, conducted on November 2018 in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Victoria Diaz (16) interviews her mother Annette (51) about growing up in New York and being sent away at 16 years old. Annette shares the difficulties and...

Lauren explains how her son started his addiction to Opioids. She provided the reasons that lead him to do it. She showed how he suffered and made his family suffer with him. She also showed how he fought this addiction...

Me- did you ever lie to your family members about your addiction? Anonymous- When I was younger I used to lie all the time about it and at one point my parents found a pack of cigarettes in my room...

Stockton University student, Rhiannon Pillsbury, interviews someone who is in recovery from Addiction

Bridget Mulroy (38) interviews her brother Jim Mulroy (43) about their childhood and his struggle with drug addiction.

In this test recording, Samia Alam at EHTHS in EHT,NJ records a practice audio file for the 2018 pilot of the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Samia is in 11th grade and is studying English right now.

my best friend Taylor and I dig deep about what it’s like growing up as woman, her role models, struggles, and threats our administration have been making against women

In this interview we spoke with a woman who suffered from depression and how she seeked treatment.

Tom Hill discusses his childhood, his experience with addiction and recovery, and what gives him hope.

Spider talks about what it was like to participate in the documentary film, and has words of advice for his younger self and other young people today.

Interview with my dad about mental illness

This was recorded on November 25 in 2018 and I ask my dad about his life. He likes cars and making things a lot, he was also on the swim team in his high school. We talk a lot about...

Discussion over her not having an experience with mental illness.