You are the soldier of a silent war. The battlefield is your bedroom. The enemy is depression. What is at stake is your sanity and consciousness tonight – the usual prize. Th[...]

Working in Student Affairs means dealing with students from a variety of backgrounds. My main focus the past few weeks, with my first pro-staff position starting soon, has been on [...]

Is it okay to have a mid-life crisis as a new #SApro? I’ve been asking myself this question a lot lately. Full disclosure time, being on the #SAsearch outside of “TPE season” has s[...]

Trigger warning – this post contains content about suicide.  September was Suicide Prevention Month. Mental health and suicide prevention messages were well seen around my in[...]

I couldn’t be inspired by anything more appropriate than #SASideHustles this morning as I began my Monday. Next to my keyboard sits a Venti Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks. It’s m[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]