Karis Rogerson

In a moment when I couldn’t write myself, it was the writing of others that brought me back from the brink of my depressive episode.

There’s a reason I turn to Friends when I get depressed. Ok, I lied, there are several reasons.

Wicked Like a Wildfire, the debut young adult novel by literary agent Lana Popovic, is a book that seems created just to fit the description “atmospheric.”

Am I misrepresenting? Am I misunderstanding? Am I misremembering?

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was a 23-year-old who had never been on a date.

"I think that you're never too old to read about hope, love, and redemption."

Here’s the thing about depression: it cycles. Even when I’m on medication, going to therapy and doing everything I’m able to do in order to stay healthy and keep it at bay, it bleeds in and out of my soul.

The benefit of posting honestly about our struggles and depression on social media.

When I held Baby J for the first time, everything shuffled into place. For the kids, I see every reason to breathe. They love me. I don’t know why.

Hospitalizations make me realize my own shortcomings when it comes to placing mental illness on the same plane as physical illness