When Your Trauma Doesn’t Fit the Image of PTSD
I’ve run a blog for the last five years about the intersection of my chronic physical and mental illnesses and my hopes of living a life of joy despite and sometimes even [...]
mental health awareness
Sweatpants & Sanity | Acknowledging My Anxiety
"It's hard for me to talk about anxiety. It makes me nervous and uncomfortable. Anxious," writes Salongo [...]
Depressed Cake Shop | 7 Reasons to Love Miss Insomnia Tulip of Lou Lou P’s Delights: Baking as Therapy
When the Depressed Cake Shop, the brainchild of Emma Thomas, a U.K. public relations guru, first popped up in 2013, one of the artists that not only inspired the effort, but [...]
Baking as an Act of Hope: Depressed Cake Shop & Cakes With Character
When people hear the words Depressed Cake Shop they pay attention, and that was exactly the point when UK P.R. guru Emma Thomas came up with the idea in 2013. Her theory was [...]
Sweatpants & Books | Review: “Silly Limbic: A Tail of Bravery” by Naomi Harvey
While I have read and reviewed many children’s books over the years that dealt with difficult topics such as divorce, death, learning differences, and disabilities, I [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Five Reasons Why Being Diagnosed is like Being Sorted into Hogwarts
Through a series of questions (or mind-reading), the psychiatrist’s (or sorting hat’s) discretion, and your life experiences, you are given a diagnosis (placed in a house). [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Taking Flight
An Open Letter to the Boy-Man Behind Me on the Plane: You were loud. You were, in the most generous light, very loud. And you knew it. You were holding court, regaling your [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Sweet 13: a Bat Mitzvah Celebration Becomes a Depressed Cake Shop Pop-Up
A young girl in Georgia chose to use her Bat Mitzvah as an opportunity to combat the stigma around mental illness and raise funds for those in need. Devi Knapp tells the [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Facing A Psychiatric Hospitalization
Many of us with severe mental health challenges will end up in a hospital setting at one time or another, and you know what? That's okay. [...]
Personal Essay | I Am Stronger With Bipolar Disorder Than I Ever Was Without It
Writer Michael Weinberger discusses living with bipolar disorder and a medical mishap that threw his world into a tailspin. [...]
