Content Warning: Suicide & Mental Illness ‘Nothing hurts more than realising you’ve been complicit in your own silence. Nothing feels better than unleashing your voice.’ – Clementine Ford in Fight Like A Girl I was fourteen theRead more…
That’s insane
We’re all crazy. Some people are just better at hiding it. I wish we wouldn’t. It’s here again. The fatigue unlike any other, both dreaded and familiar, worse than the summer I had glandular fever. Unlike the flu, however, IRead more…
Post-suicide trauma
**Trigger warning: references to sexual assault, trauma, and suicide** My childhood sexual perpetrator hung himself before facing a courtroom for child molestation charges, served by someone else. I was nine when he sexually assaulted me. I lacked the foresight, theRead more…
Picture this – Anxiety
Picture this: you feel like Eminem in the song where he’s knees weak, palms sweaty, but instead of mom’s spaghetti, you’re at home curled up under your desk (being in an enclosed space helps), and instead of freaking out beforeRead more…
When feeling sad turns out to be S.A.D.
There’s no easy way to explain to the people in your life that the change of seasons fills you with dread, and that turning the calendar to April or May means that things are about to turn ugly. This particularRead more…