Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

Mental illness” is among the most stigmatized of categories.’ People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.

What people don’t understand about depression is how much it hurts. It’s like your brain is convinced that it’s dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that’s...

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn’t going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.