Mental 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 Emmie Arnold Posted on June 27, 2019
Essays, Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | Acknowledging My Anxiety "It's hard for me to talk about anxiety. It makes me nervous and uncomfortable. Anxious," writes Salongo Salongo Wendland Posted on October 31, 2017
Food & Drink, Mental, Self Care 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 Valerie Van Galder Posted on September 16, 2017
Mental 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 Valerie Van Galder Posted on September 6, 2017
Books 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, Julie Bond Posted on July 24, 2017
Mental 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, Guest Author Posted on May 15, 2017
Essays 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 Guest Author Posted on March 29, 2017
Mental 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 Guest Author Posted on January 18, 2017
Essays, Mental 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? Guest Author Posted on August 30, 2016
Essays, Mental 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. Guest Author Posted on August 14, 2016