Hi, I’m Bryan, and my mental health journey has been anything but smooth. I’ve dealt with OCD, PTSD, depression, and a slew of anxiety-related diagnoses. I’ve been through hospitalizations—eight times in fact—each time hoping for real help, but all I ever got was more confusion, a prescription pad, and a pat on the back.

Let’s be honest—those hospital stays didn’t fix anything. If anything, they left me feeling more broken than before. The system that’s supposed to help people like me? It’s flawed, and it fails way too many of us. I’ve been mistreated by hospital staff, misunderstood by EMTs, and even mishandled by the police—all people who were supposed to help but didn’t have the tools, or the compassion, to deal with mental health crises properly. They didn’t see the person behind the diagnosis; they saw a problem they couldn’t fix.

That’s why I started Mind Renew—because I know there’s more to mental health care than just prescriptions and checkboxes. This platform is here to offer real, practical tools and resources that go beyond the traditional system. It’s not just about what worked for me; it’s about exploring lesser-known resources like peer support rooms and the Clubhouse International model, spaces where people come together to support each other. These aren’t things I heard about during those hospital stays, but they’ve made a real difference in my life, and I want to make sure others know about them too.

Mind Renew is about sharing my journey—what’s worked for me, what hasn’t, and why. But it’s also about opening doors for others to find what works for them. We’re all different, and that means the path to managing mental health is different for everyone. Our goal is to highlight new possibilities and create a space where we can all find ways to cope, to manage, and to build lives that work for us—on our own terms.

The most important thing we want you to know? You’re not alone in this. There are nearly 970 million people around the world living with some kind of mental health diagnosis—more than the entire population of Europe. Some of us are living with challenges that may never fully go away. But that doesn’t mean we have to go through it alone. Together, we can find ways to cope, manage, and build lives that work—because we’re always better when we do it together