My Daughter Told Me She Wanted To Die. To Save Her Life, I Gave Her Permission To End It.
The author and her daughter Faith. “Faith is 9 in this photo, the same age she was the first time she threatened to hurt herself with a knife,” the author writes. Courtesy of Brenda Ferber My daughter, who is now a 28-year-old therapist leading a happy and productive life, almost didn’t make it to adulthood […]
My Reproductive Organs Took Me On A Wild Ride I Never Saw Coming
The author with her son, Noah in 2009. “Noah was so pretty that he was often mistaken for a girl when he was very young,” she writes. Courtesy of Erica Landis When my gynecologist first suggested a hysterectomy after reading the pathology report showing precancerous cells in my cervix, my hand instantly flew up into […]
I Went Through Menopause At 44 And I Was Shocked By What It Did To My Body
“Feeling hot not-bothered in the summer heat,” the author writes. Courtesy of Danielle Martinetti I’m holding a shot of tequila in one hand, a lemon wedge in the other, and laughing hysterically as my ex-boyfriend is fumbling to find the right words to toast my ovaries. “To your Madame Ovaries!” “To my Madame Ovaries,” I […]
I’m A Man Who Was Sexually Assaulted At 8 Years Old. I Kept It Secret For Years — Until Now.
The author in Los Angeles in 2022. Photograph by Ryan Clemens Note: The following essay includes depictions of sexual assault. After three years of intensive therapy and a lifetime of denying the reality of my past, I can finally say it out loud: When I was 8 years old, I was sexually assaulted. My mom […]
I Stayed Home Rather Than Vacation With My Husband And Son. I Truly Don’t Regret It.
The author at a favorite getaway. A mental health break has become a new favorite destination. Courtesy of Kara Shelman “I don’t think I can do this,” I squeaked out to my husband as we were three days away from packing our bags and making the usual trip west to see his family. I thought […]
My Obsession With My Boyfriend Was Driving Us Apart. Then I Found Out What Was Really Going On.
The author and her partner, Cole, two weeks before they got engaged. Courtesy of Jade Deyoe It started one night about a month after we’d met, when he said something funny and I didn’t react quickly enough. He was staying at my place, a one-bedroom house I was renting in the Mojave Desert. The space […]
I Thought I Had A Headache. It Turned Out To Be Herpes (HSV-1) — In My Brain.
The author during her stay at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was treated for encephalitis in 2015. “I do not remember this day,” she writes. Courtesy of Brigid Ward On Oct. 28, 2015, I left my high school teaching job early because I thought I had the flu. I had been […]
Promising rectal cancer study
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Hanna K. Sanoff, MD, MPH, is the author of a viewpoint in the New England Journal of Medicine that provides a perspective on the evolving treatment of rectal cancer. She offers prospects for future treatment of the disease in light of encouraging findings from a study published in the journal […]