You on Your Best Day: Tinder, Self, and Depression

Originally published on Lithium Magazine

Photo by Sofia Sears from the Annenberg Space for Photography exhibit “Girl Gaze”

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“It was too much effort. To look passable. To look pretty enough. To make sure all the seams lined up and everything matched and she looked as much the her in her mind’s eye as she possibly could. She did not know even who she was dressing up for. So much effort to go through to smile smugly at her mirror…