Hello and welcome to Mental Health Coffee Time! My name is Nina and I’ll be your host for this blog. This is the written portion of the Mental Health Coffee Time Project; my partner host, Andy, runs the podcast portion of the project. The Mental Health Coffee Time project is intended to be an open forum to write and discuss mental health issues and stories. Our project has a dual weekly format: every Sunday, we will release a podcast about a key mental health topic; in addition, we will release a blog post which will further discuss the issues in the podcast. The goal of the project is to provide an open platform and forum for us to discuss mental health issues. This is important for many reasons: one, we hope that it will reduce the stigma around mental health. Two, we hope that this project will facilitate interpersonal connection and help all of us who are struggling to realize that we are not alone. Third, we hope that we can use this forum to …