Dear Teachers ,

If you have chosen to be a teacher, within you must lie some desire to impact the impressionable young minds which surround you every day. I’ve heard that there are many teachers and staff members, who are required to deal with grieving students, and are at a loss for how to help. With that in mind, I would…

We Have to Talk About Depression

I am a writer, a mom, a media literacy advocate with a newly established media literacy initiative, I talk to very smart people every day, I have many friends and I have an embarrassing illness of which I am very ashamed.

Please stop saying “I want to kill myself.”

Some people have dealt with suicide in their lives. Maybe personally. Maybe through a family member, friend, or mentor.

So, when the grocery store doesn’t have your favorite ice cream flavor, you have to stay extra late at the…

On Depression and Suicide

It was around 7:00am and I was dropping my mom off at her office before I was supposed to go to school. I say I was supposed to go to school because that is not what I had actually planned to do. I was 17. We hugged and I held on a little tighter and longer than usual. I started to…