Late last year, a top Jamaican public health official sounded a urgent alarm over the country’s growing unaddressed mental health burden. In early October, Odean Forbes, Mental Health Officer for the Southern Health Regional Authority, shared grim data: the parish of St. Elizabeth alone records 100 new cases of clinically significant mental illness every single month. That startling figure came as no surprise to Ashlyn Anderson, a Jamaican writer and mental health advocate who has navigated her own battle with depression and spent years supporting others through similar struggles. Now, she is lifting the veil on this underdiscussed public health issue through her newly published book, *Reimagine Reframe Rise*.