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D for Depression is a story-telling and -sharing space. It will not focus solely on depression, rather the full spectrum of mental health disorders and struggles. Nonetheless, I feel like I owe this blog to Depression. Publishing this during the 18th month on my current depressive episode, I finally found no other way to come to terms with my brain except this blog. My goal is to give a voice all of us who are struggling with our mental health. I will share how my mental health troubles have and continue to affect me and my loved ones, in hopes that it would somehow help you, or help you understand what a loved is going through. So let’s be in constant conversation as we grow resilience and learn to be our mind's friends.

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A Bitter Pill to Swallow

I was sitting at my desk, talking to a friend on the phone. I put the call on speaker phone and had laid down my cellphone to be...

A Year Wrapped

As I contemplate the past twelve months, they seem like a pack of sardines: the growth, events, and tumultuous changes of four years...

Cairokee and Other Artists

I finally get it. I'm late to the party once again, but I've finally arrived. There was an entire hemisphere of our emotional world that...

Life: Gift or Chore?

Many excerpts from Kay Redfield Jamison’s beautifully-written memoir “An Unquiet Mind” spoke to my innermost being, but the most...

Taking A Hard Left Turn

More often than I would like to admit, I have questioned the meaning of life and, every time, when I arrive at an answer, I naively...

Rainbows in the Clouds

I delivered this speech in early 2019 as my icebreaker speech for Toastmasters and I find it fitting to share it now: … [Singing]: When...

Hope and Love

I remember the moment I gave up all hope. It was in early November, 2020. A month earlier, a perfect storm hit my life and I had been...

The Root of It All...

After nearly a month of travel (escape/running away/call it as you will), I am finally home again. I am finally back to stability. I know...

Amazing Grace

T'was grace that brought us safe thus far And grace will lead us home Amazing grace, how sweet the sound I am sitting at my usual spot on...

Yoga and Trust

“There’s a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat...

Brain on Leave

Imagine sitting in a friend’s living room, reuniting with a group of fifteen friends after a year’s distance. Think of the many different...

Thank you, Eminem

I am having brunch with my girlfriends who have become family, and as I take my first bite of pancake, my gut clenches. Again. I woke up...

A Post of Gratitude...

Thoughts of gratitude pass through my mind and give me moments of serenity, so I would like to share some of them with you: I am grateful...

Coping Mechanisms: Fasting

As I sit down on my sofa waiting for the Maghrib athan (sunset call for prayer) to break my fast, I internalize the value of fasting as a...

In My Cave...

In my cave*, I find a snug, cozy atmosphere that I have personalized over the years. When I first carved it, it was bare rocks and...

Coming Up for Air

I am starting off this month with a little bit of relief as I acknowledge that I am in a better place than I was in May. The month of May...

Beethoven’s 7th Symphony

When I mentioned that I was the odd one out, I was not exaggerating. I listen to Beethoven, marvel at the texture of a large stone on the...

System Shutdown

The weather has been beautiful these past couple of weeks: bright sun; blue sky; green, lush trees; and blossoming flowers. Squirrels and...

Breakfast in Canada ♡

Friends, I am overwhelmed with awe and gratitude for the kindness you showed me last week when I shared my first post. In no way did I...

I am a Writer...

Well, I became a writer. I am not the best writer I’ve known. I have two sisters who capture ideas oh-so eloquently that reading them...

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