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Parents: If Your Kid Has Mental Health Issues…
First and foremost, I want you to know, that it’s 99.9% not your fault. For those of you looking for help and trying to find avenues to work with your kid so they can be a happier, healthier version of themselves, it is not your fault that your kid lives with trauma. I have a…
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Like No One Before
I don’t want to be like the people who came before. With all due respect, their journey wasn’t mine. I have it much easier than they did and I want to honor that by recognizing it. I know that my life is easier today because I am an adult than it was when I was…
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One Thousand One Hundred and Seventy
Posts do not seem like a huge number to someone who isn’t a writer. However, when you consider how many words makeup one thousand, one hundred and seventy essays, I would say I’ve written about three more books on this here website. But here I am, and it’s not the number of essays that I…
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P.S. Fuck Domestic Abuse and Their Supporters
In a world where rape and domestic violence happened so often that it’s easier to believe it did happen than to believe it did not, I am curious as to why so many are focused on defending alleged abusers. So Nick Carter’s name is trending, I check the hashtag and I am sick to my…
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Healing Looks Different for Everyone
We all have a different method to maintain the madness we hide from the world. This week I did my nails – they’re just glued on but I love having my nails be long and pretty again, even if it makes writing a little harder. This time I am not doing it for anyone but…
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Medication Changes Your Diet and For an Anorexic Person That’s a Bitch
So I’m about 300 pounds. I blame the pandemic because before that I was about 250, I worked really hard to lose weight, and by “worked really hard” I mean it. I walked, drank water, ate healthier, and focused on cleansing my body inside and out. But when I was a kid I took a…
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Is Prison the Answer?
Has it ever been? Like, let’s get real honest about mental health. Many folks who deal with mental health issues have trauma from outside sources. We need to start by acknowledging that fact. The second thing that we need to acknowledge is that in the past our answer to mental health issues was to lock…
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Who The Fuck Is Devon J Hall?
I am a reformed anti-Roman Catholic, non-binary, female-presenting, disabled, mental health, cannabis, and disability, advocate, from British Columbia Canada. It took me exactly 40 years, 11 months, and 27 days ago, which is 14,972 days. I asked Google. Because I think it’s important to celebrate this birthday. This is the day that CP said he’d…
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Happy Devon J Hall Day
It’s my birthday. I don’t know how to feel. I’ve been trying to write this post for days but today is the day I was born 41 years ago. The most amazing thing isn’t that I am here, it’s not that I survived, it’s not even the shit that I went through, it’s that I…
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Public Notice: I Am Getting A Divorce from The Church
In light of the Pope’s disgusting rhetoric on Trans human beings, I have decided I no longer want to be considered even remotely close to being a Catholic. I am tired of Trans human beings being told that they literally, do not have a right to exist, because “God said so.” God is not a…
Loud Mouth Brown Girl 