How Depression Taught Me There Are No Little Things

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022

*First published during the more ‘severe’ lockdown conditions of the pandemic on the online forum for mental health stories: The OC87 Recovery Diaries. ‘There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.’ Fanny Fern In my first stay at a mental health institution, in 2013, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder […]

Sustainability is a state of mind

January 9, 2017February 19, 2019

It had been only February, the year before last, when I had looked out at the stars from my balcony one evening and cried into the wee hours of the morning. My job had become increasingly monotonous, unfulfilling, and stressful, to say the least. It was, to speak true, little more than a pay check […]