what is there when there is nothing
When we quit careers, leave relationships or start working on ourselves, we may neglect to consider the systemic consequences of that in our lives. Plenty of those times it is most likely…
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the off switch
Sometimes I think it is somewhat of an evolutionary miracle that most humans can go on with life even with the world burning around us. Most of us just grow numb and…
yearning for relief
(cw: euthanasia & suicide) I haven’t written here for a couple of weeks, mostly because I was sick. Usually I get one migraine per cycle, but this cycle I had another one…
freeing ourselves from our invisible prisons
on the journey and outcomes of freeing ourselves
When the system fails a child
afterthoughts upon reading a memoir on losing a child to suicide
Fighting hopelessness
why depression is so hard to recover from
Truthfully exhausted
Today, I wanted to write a tinyletter. I send tinyletters only when I cannot bring myself to publish my thoughts in public. These are far and few in between: since writing the first…
When kids end their own lives
why we are killing them with a flawed narrative
on being chronically depressed and suicidal
(This is a cross-post from Medium and I don’t typically cross-post but a reader has pointed out that Medium is now blocked in her country – Malaysia, which is really unfortunate.) A…
Sharing myself like an open book
giving light to my own darkness