A few nights ago, I had an extremely vivid dream – as people with depression are wont to do. In the dream, I was dying – I had been given a few days by a doctor and was[...]

You wake up. You don’t want to get out of bed because your thoughts won’t let you. Later you’ll want to explain this paralysis, but you’re ashamed of it, and you don’t quite unders[...]

Since my post last year a few things have changed. Most notably I worked with my therapist to be approved for an emotional support animal and adopted a nine-year-old female pitbull[...]

This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. – Perks Of Bei[...]

Last year I told a story of how I was committed to speaking my truth as an outside contribution to the Committed series. Since that day, so much has changed and at the same time, s[...]

I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in yo[...]

Being very type-A, hyper organized, and a striving perfectionist, it has been my lot in life to be a little more, and sometimes a lot more, stressed than those around me. The right[...]

When my depression diagnosis came through at fifteen, I thought the doctor was wrong.  I was upset that a doctor would think I could have something so detrimental – I was jus[...]

Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. Pre[...]

Today’s #SACommits entry is a video by Dan McDowell, talking about his anxiety and experience with medication.  —————————[...]