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Opiate Use At Epidemic Level

11/19/2015

 
In the News
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Six-part Columbus Dispatch special report on suicide -- ; Silent Suffering
11.18.15 | WTVG-TV Lucas County DART Team Saves Heroin Addict’s Life
11.17.15 | Massillon Independent Deputy uses Narcan kit to revive suicidal heroin user
11.13.15 | The Atlantic A Newspaper Written Entirely by Mental-Health Patients
11.11.15 | Youth Today Prevention is Key
11.11.15 | Columbus Dispatch City to introduce needle-exchange program to combat heroin, infectious diseases
11.10.15 | Forbes DEA Maps Show Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s Cartel Controls Nearly the Entire U.S. Drug Market
11.10.15 | WKEF-TV Communities Fighting Back Against Heroin Epidemic
11.9.15 | Cleveland Plain Dealer Studies laud Ohio’s efforts to bolster independent living, reduce Medicaid costs
11.9.15 | WDTN-TV Dayton mom shares heroin road to recovery
11.9.15 | Columbus Dispatch Vivitrol: Athens County latest to try new tool to fight opiate addiction
11.6.15 | Toledo Blade (Editorial) Making OARRS easier to row
11.6.15 | Dayton Daily News Federal health officials visit Dayton to help combat drug deaths
11.6.15 | Stars and Stripes New private hospital network to help VA with mental health care for veterans
11.6.15 | NPR How do stereotypes of mental health affect us?

OUR STORIES - LGBT Amish 

11/16/2015

 
Knowing that there are others like ourselves can be the most reassuring and life-affirming fact we can learn. This is a place to share our stories about our Amish upbringing and how the values, lessons and rejection we were taught continue to affect our daily lives. 
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THADDEUS SCHLABACH  (FOUNDER)   I grew up Old-Order Amish in Holmes County, Ohio. Later, my family also attended the New-Order Amish and Conservative Mennonite Church. I was never baptized into the church, and completely left the community at age 21. I accepted that I was gay at a fairly young age, around 14. I struggled deeply with it for about one year, convinced I would be sent to Hell--I even contemplated suicide several times. At some point when I was 15, it just clicked...I knew who I was. I felt some guilt and a lot of judgment, but no longer feared being gay. However, I knew it was something I had to hide from my family, my friends and my community. 

When my parents discovered that I was gay at 17, they burst into tears and sent me to a non-Amish, ex-gay religious counselor. It's one of my only memories I have of my parents crying. The Amish are a stoic and unemotional people. They were blindsided by my confession and had no idea what to do. They were more afraid of the other church members finding out about me than I was. To make a long story short, I'm now 29 and living in Savannah, Georgia. In 2005, I met the love of my life and have been married to Jeffrey Garris for nearly five years. He's a writer, and he has encouraged me to start this website. I still struggle with issues of openness and feeling judged, but with a patient husband by my side I'm living a wonderful life. My parents have never met my husband and remain reluctant to do so. I think their emotional distance is even harder on him than on me. 
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