mental illness

Depression lingers like an unwelcome ghost trailing behind me. And most days, I accept that. I acknowledge that. And, I’m okay. What if one day I’m not?

We have a pandemic preoccupation with productivity we are obsessed with productivity. We reward “hard work” with money and praise and admiration and envy.

While money does not prevent depression, it does facilitate the potential for happiness, or at the very least more management of unhappiness.

When someone you love has bipolar disorder, here are some questions you can ask. Understanding this disease is an important thing in this world.

At the age of seven I started compulsively pulling out my eyelashes and eyebrows. I was later diagnosed with trichotillomania, a hair-pulling disorder.

These days, I can’t say I’m never hit with anxiety about an unexpected pain or a weird lump. But when fear creeps in, I stick to some helpful guidelines.

People can be courageous and hardworking and still not get better. Because that’s what it means to have an illness; it isn’t predictable or convenient.

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.