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There currently exists a huge stigma against mental health issues causing people suffering to suffer in silence. In the case that the ones suffering share, the people around them tend to think that the person can easily get “over it” or “aren’t trying hard enough” which is not the case. There have also been cases where the family of the person suffering is completely against seeking professional help, leaving them unable to afford the costs of professional help. 1 in 5 adults in America are living and working with a mental illness – most common are OCD, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, and Chronic Depression. With the number of people suffering from a mental illness so high, it is imperative that they have a place to go when they are looking for help – in this case, it is Safe Mind Space. Safe Mind Place’s main goal is to get rid of the stigma around mental health issues by providing young people – 12 – 26 years old  - with early access to mental health care and support. Safe Mind Place...

Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace, you You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one If I were to sit an imagine a perfect world, I would immediately think of a peaceful place. A place where violence, differences, and strife didn’t exist. Where everyone was happy all the time and everything was perfect. But life isn’t perfect and everyone isn’t happy all the time. Everyone in one way or another has felt pressure from the outside – pressure to get a job, to be in relationships, to look and act a certain way, to do well in school, and so on. All these pressures coupled with the unpredictability of life and we get statistics that are horrifying: ...

My family loves to watch movies, whether it be at the actual theater for a just-released film or catching up on one at home from a few months ago. We tend to watch a movie every week and sometimes even more than once a week. Today my brother had some friends over which left the rest of us - my mom, dad and myself -  to find something to do. My mom scrolled through the movies on Spectrum and she found LIFE. I remember watching the trailer when it first came out and I thought then it would be a really great movie. I was right.  The movie started off with an introduction to the team and their mission - they had been sent into space to intercept the unmanned Pilgrim 7 space probe, which has soil samples from Mars. The main scientist, Hugh, then proceeded to try and reanimate a dormant cell they found in the soil sample. He was able to get it to animate and it started to grow eventually becoming a multi-celled organism. At this point, they thought they had made a...