Karis Rogerson

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.