On being chronically depressed and suicidal

on the life I could have lost, on the lives we could still be losing

A few days ago I told a roomful of people — both strangers and friends — that I am chronically depressed and…

Recovering from chronic depression

and documenting what helped me

I am acutely aware of survivorship bias and that I have had several lucky breaks in my life that empowered me to begin my own healing process. I still wish to write this in hope that some part…

Finding a reason to exist

apparently I am not the only person looking for one

How I finally learned to meditate

I had been trying to learn how to meditate for years unsuccessfully. There was just something in me…

Piecing myself together after burnout

The process of finding the root cause and addressing it

I am gradually recovering from a period of burnout — I was still functional but there was a chronic fatigue that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I rested, apathy to things I used…

The beauty of being human

why we need the world to be imperfect to appreciate ourselves

Imagine for a moment, if you had super powers, an eternal life, and you lived in paradise. Everything is perfect.

I am leaving, because I can

on agency and self-love

In roughly two days I’ll leave the United States and will probably be unable to return again.

This has been a sharp about-turn for me, even for myself. I remember setting foot in San…

The courage to be ourselves

why it is important to the world to be who you are

Someone once told me that we have to dress for the job we want to have. I thought: if how I dress is the way you perceive how serious I am about my work, we have a much…

Fighting hopelessness

why depression is so hard to recover from

To fight, there must be a hope that one day we may win the battle. That our lives can change for the better. That we can overcome whatever debilitating circumstances that triggered the depression…