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 love development theories. With a psychology and sociology background, I am so interested in seeing what makes people the way they are. Before taking my student development class[...]

How many times a day do we ask, or are we asked, “how are you?” Countless. This simple phrase has become a common courtesy in our culture, but those three words lack me[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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.  —————————[...]

This isn’t something I’ve talked about to many people, but I feel that it’s a story to be told. If there’s one other person out there that can maybe relate to this just a little, t[...]