Sweatpants & Soul | Fading Light: Degrees of Depression
Note to self: The thing to understand about the downspin is that it’s just another ride, and the ride – it’s moving. You’ve been here before, and likely will be [...]
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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 | 8 Ways You Can Make the World Safer for People with Mental Illness
It’s hard to know how to support a friend or loved one with mental illness. Those of us who live with a mental condition know this. I imagine for my husband and family it [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | The Painted Tree: A Story of Life, Love, and Depression
It was a cold but beautiful May day when my husband and I exchanged vows beneath a canopy of cherry blossoms in Brooklyn. We lived as husband and wife on the fourth floor of [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | I Know This Girl
I know this girl. This woman, actually. My heart breaks for her. The things she’s told me—they make me want to throw up. I question how she has made it so far in this [...]
7 Surprising Gifts of My Mental Illness
I used to live in an I-have-it-together illusion. But waking up in ICU after a failed suicide attempt left me with no choice but to admit that I suffer from mental illness, [...]
