When the World Says You Should Be Happy
If today you’re looking at your life and hearing the world tell you that you should be happy, but you’re not truly feeling that happiness on the inside—I want to tell you that it’s OK.
Topic: depression
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
I always believed that Madison Holleran would have loved To Write Love On Her Arms—if only she'd had the chance to find it.
We Can Fight Back
Wounds won't heal so long as they are covered with a bandaid. They find relief when they are exposed to the light and the air—not when they are forgotten and pushed aside.
Ten Years
If I’ve gone longer without self-injury than I’ve self-injured, who will I be? If I’ve been healthy longer than I’ve been sick, where does that leave me?
A Funny Thing Happened When I Was Typing My Suicide Note
Why am I writing all this? Is it self-serving? You betcha. Can it help anyone else? God I fucking hope so.
A Safety Plan for When Life Gets Rough
We need to learn how to create elbow and knee pads for our mental health.
How Photography Saved My Life
Have you ever felt scared and alone? Helpless, hopeless, or worthless? Like everything is suddenly out of control?
Liminal Space: A Song of Hope and Encouragement
Liminal space refers to a transition from “what was” to "the next." It is the waiting place of not knowing. This space is often filled with anxiety, but also a place where growth and change can begin.
Budgeting My Depression
Even though I can’t make my depression or anxiety go away, it’s given me a lot of comfort to realize I can try to give it less to work with.
When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny: The Short Film
I wrote “When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny” because I was frustrated. I was frustrated because I was starving myself and all anybody could say to me was how amazing I looked now. How inspiring my rapid weight loss was to them.
The Girl With the Antidepressant Past
I know that life isn’t black and white like that. And if depression is the black and utter joy is the white, then maybe it’s in the in-between where the colors are, where I can find sorrow and joy often coexisting right in the same moment.
Letters
Allow this to be my letter to you, an open invitation for you to use that voice to ask for the help you need and deserve. This is my shout into the void telling you that you are enough. Not too little, not too much. You are so fantastically, spectacularly enough.
