The Sad Mattress: My Depression is a Conspiracy Theorist

The Sad Mattress is a series on mental illness, chronic illness, and how they often contrive to sitting on your sad mattress all dang day. [Blanket content warnings include depression, suicidal ideation, extremely negative self-talk, and drugs of the prescription variety.]

Casey Lucas
Sep 5, 2018 · 6 min read

Let me preface this by saying this is not a persuasive essay. This is not a how-to…

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