Hi Reader, Disclosing depression may seem easy. After all, scarcely a day goes by when this celebrity or that one “comes out” as living with depression, or anxiety (two of the socially “acceptable” mental health diagnoses) but, for many people, talking openly about their mental health challenges, whatever those are, isn’t easy; it can be excruciating, and the very thought of being out in the open as someone living with mental illness can be incredibly, well, anxiety-provoking. Miriam...

Hi Reader, A film is a snapshot in time. When we first met this extraordinary young woman, it was eight years ago. Back then, she was Lilah James, an extraordinarily talented fashion and conceptual designer creating a bold, beautiful collection for her final project, "Anxiety Descending." Each look represented a different facet or symptom of her CPTSD diagnosis and she and her work are beautifully represented in our film about her, Recovery on the Runway | PTSD, Mental Health & Fashion. So...

Hi Reader, Melanie du Preez asks herself, in her beautiful new essay on our site, "How on Earth does a psychologist miss neurodiversity in themselves?" Indeed, Melanie lives with autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and has lived with it, and its sometimes extremely challenging symptoms, all her life but, as she also says, "turns out that masking is one hell of a drug." And that's the cold, hard truth about walking around every inexorable minute of every exhausting day while...