Karis Rogerson

Selfies are one of the easiest indicators of my mental health.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was a 23-year-old who had never been on a date.

The benefit of posting honestly about our struggles and depression on social media.

Wicked Like a Wildfire, the debut young adult novel by literary agent Lana Popovic, is a book that seems created just to fit the description “atmospheric.”

Here’s the thing about depression: it cycles. Even when I’m on medication, going to therapy and doing everything I’m able to do in order to stay healthy and keep it at bay, it bleeds in and out of my soul.

In a moment when I couldn’t write myself, it was the writing of others that brought me back from the brink of my depressive episode.

Tomi Adeyemi might be the writer whose book deal seared me with insane jealousy and sent waves crashing through the book world.

Hospitalizations make me realize my own shortcomings when it comes to placing mental illness on the same plane as physical illness