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“You don’t look like you have depression.”

This is something that has been said to me on many occasions after revealing that indeed, I have depression. It's something that is said with good intentions, probably to help make me feel less shit about my condition. Am I meant to take that as a compliment? It implies that all depression looks a certain… Continue reading “You don’t look like you have depression.”

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Why The Text Breakup Is Completely Acceptable

We've all heard it before: decent people do not, ever, break up through text. It's taboo. It's rude. The dumpee is entitled to a face-to-face encounter where tears may or may not be shed, where there is an opportunity to talk about it a.k.a. beg the dumper to not do the dumping. Breaking up is one… Continue reading Why The Text Breakup Is Completely Acceptable

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How Makeup Helped Me Manage My Depression

  Depression is such an ugly place to be. It's confusing at best and completely debilitating at worst-- you suddenly lose interest in the things you used to live for, you lack the drive to do anything but sleep or get no sleep at all, you eat too much or too little, you are not… Continue reading How Makeup Helped Me Manage My Depression