Your Darkness is Not Your Curse
You are not flawed or doing this wrong because you have hunger, because you have lonely, because you have yearning, because you have threads of self-doubt and self-loathing running through the fabric of you.
Topic: depression
Even When I Struggle
You are not the dark thoughts that you have.
Where My Feet Are
Tonight, I do the best I can to quiet the thoughts.
Fear Is a Liar
Even if your body is rebelling against you, your mind is in chaos, and trauma has told you that you are too broken to be fixed—you make today better.
Searching for Meaning While Struggling With Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
My point in telling you this story is to convey how I tried literally everything I could think of in order to rid myself of depression.
Rhino Clouds
Every time I feel it, I panic. It comes swooping in, stormy and scary. It feels like I’m running from that rhino cloud in James and the Giant Peach.
In This Together
It was how I survived. It’s what guided me out of that once endless maze; it’s the reason I’m still alive today.
I Exist, Therefore I Am Enough
Even when we don’t want to take another step. Even when our hearts hurt. Even when it feels like the phone never rings and no one cares, we are enough.
A Micro Story About My Life with Depression
Years after that first day when I was eight—on a day just as bright and clear—the world once again plunged into a meaningless gray. Only this time, it didn’t lift.
Somewhere in the Middle
I wanted to hear the candid account of someone in the middle, maybe just past the hardest days of this illness, but not quite to the happy ending where you’ve reached the place you never thought you would.
Flowers at Your Feet
The good exists even if it’s small, silly, or invisible.
Celebrating My Pride: I Am Not Half Anything
All the time spent thinking I was half-this and half-that and yet not enough of either, when in reality, I am a whole person whose identity is not half-anything.
