mental illness – Riffs on the Reg

In Sickness and In Health

Last week, I got sick, breaking my 5-year health streak. But being sick allowed me to realize how much I have to be thankful for!

[CW: depression] Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Today is one of those days where I exist on the border between numbness and deep emotional turmoil. It’s somewhat counterintuitive that those things would be so closely related; but for me, it’s second nature. At age 19, a particularly difficult depressive episode of my life caught meContinue reading “The Specter of Despair”