Karis Rogerson

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

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.

Tomi Adeyemi might be the writer whose book deal seared me with insane jealousy and sent waves crashing through the book world.

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

Selfies are one of the easiest indicators of my mental health.

It's ok to be sad and happy at the same time. I think that’s the beauty of life — how unpredictable it is and how adaptable we are as humans.

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

On top of the career she’s already built for herself, Emily’s debut young adult novel Light Years released from Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster in September.

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

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.