{"id":1013616,"date":"2026-08-20T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013616\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:55:47","slug":"planning-my-own-funeral-how-one-woman-moved-past-addiction-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013616\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Planning my own funeral\u2019: How one woman moved past addiction, depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; It\u2019s a story of overcoming addiction, only to continue a slide into deep depression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Penny Kryfka shares her journey in our latest Hear me. See me. podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Penny said she remembers, even as a child, wishing she would die. It lead to using illegal substances as a teen. She says she quit using drugs when she had her children, but still could not shake her depression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, with the support of family, she never gave up and finally found the right help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Today, she\u2019s a peer advocate with <a href=\"https:\/\/namikansas.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/namikansas.org\/\">NAMI Kansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch to hear her amazing journey.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; It\u2019s a story of overcoming addiction, only to continue a slide into deep depression.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1013617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[1556,6017,210,405556,405559,517,405557,405558,1558,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1013616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-addiction","tag-depression","tag-health","tag-hear-me-see-me","tag-justice-involved-persons","tag-mental-health","tag-nami-kansas","tag-peer-adovcate","tag-recovery","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117130073686085819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}