“No blog post that accurately describes what it feels like to go through depression is going to neatly fit in Helvetica font, printed over a black and white photo of a girl smoking a cigarette.”Tagged: Depression, Mental Health
“Your best friend is not afraid to be brutally honest, and they have a sixth sense for figuring out exactly when you need a hefty helping of the capital T Truth.”Tagged: Best Friends, Your BFF, BFF
“Depression is sleep. Too much, and way too little. You’re always tired—not from the lack of sleep—you’re a weird, unknown type of exhaustion that sneaks into your life and somehow, without you noticing, becomes part of who you are.”Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Depression
“Depression is eating. It’s eating so many Strawberry Pop-Tarts in one sitting, you feel heavy and slow. It’s not eating for days, and feeling empty and hollow. It’s both, it’s over and over again, it never stops. Depression is sleep. Too much, and way too little. You’re always tired—not from the…”Tagged: eating, Depression
“Haunting’ oversimplifies the complete travesty that depression wreaks in almost every aspect of your life. Depression isn’t ‘difficult to ignore,’ holy shit, no: depression makes it difficult to think about anything else. Depression becomes you.”Tagged: Depression, Identitiy
“Depression is constantly apologizing to people you love for who you are.”Tagged: Depression, The Truth About Depression, depressed, Mental Health
“Samuel Jackson struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction early on in his career. It was so detrimental to his ability to act and function, he was replaced in two different Broadway productions. He tried supporting himself by working as a camera stand-in for Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show and…”Tagged: Alcoholism, Addiction, Second Chances, 40-somethings, Career
“I’m on the L train and I’m looking at this girl’s huge engagement ring and I can’t help but think how crazy it is that she had to have met someone—one (1) person—and hung out with them consistently for a long enough period of time until they both sat down and discussed maybe continuing doing what…”Tagged: Why Getting Married Is Crazy, How Do People Get Married
“I really hate romanticizing and fetishizing sadness. I think the internet does an excellent job of doing it and it really bothers me because of how much time I’ve spent swallowing all of mine. It’s like how wearing glasses is cool now, but when I was growing up everyone was, like, waiting for me to…”Tagged: Sadness, Quote of the Moment, Being Sad
“I think I’m trying to distract myself from thinking about other things because any thought that comes about naturally at 3AM is going to be a disaster.”Tagged: Late Night Thoughts
“I am soft and delicate and I overthink things and word vomit everything I’m scared of and everything that’s stressing me out into my diaries.”Tagged: Soft Heart, Delicate, H4D-34
“I don’t think a lot of people understand how exhausting it is to always pretend that you don’t care about anything.”Tagged: pretending, don't care, H4D-37
“Isn’t it stupid that we sometimes know exactly what could help us feel better but we still won’t do it?”Tagged: hair, Self-Care, Quote of the Moment, Mental Health
“6. He makes you feel like you are a major part of his life. That’s nice—but the world is spiraling out of control. Are dating articles even relevant? Do people read things for fun anymore? Do people feel anything other than anger and panic these days? Is Mercury in retrograde? Does love even mean…”Tagged: satire, humor, Hilarious, The State of The World, Does Dating Even Matter
“1. He goes out of his way to spend time with you. Do you want that though? You’ve been panicking a lot and screaming into various voids and Twitter is just a dumpster fire of information and anger and every morning you dread looking at the internet, so are you even sure you want someone, like, on…”Tagged: satire, humor, Hilarious, The State of The World, Does Dating Even Matter
“You can’t change anything because that would require any of it meaning something.”Tagged: humor, Existential Crisis, The Void, LOL, Internal Meltdown