Writings about mental health issues

Not my writings, but I've been making an unofficial collection of things that make sense to me or make me cry (often both). I find these helpful, either because they resonate with me, or because I use them to help understand/support others. 

I'll keep updating as I find things.

The Happy-Sads by Gerard Way
We were talking about depression. More specifically- the flash-flood of bulletproof mania, and it’s inevitable descent into lengthy, paralyzing anguish- our shared condition. “The Happy-Sads.” they said. “That’s what my doctor calls them”.

10 Ways to Show Love to Someone with Depression by Kelley @ The Darling Bakers
If you have a partner or are close to someone who struggles with depression, you may not always know how to show them you love them.

some thoughts on running and depression by Zack Handlen
It’s an odd thing, to recognize depression. It kind of always feels like bullshit. You start bleeding, you see a doctor; your car breaks down, you see a mechanic. But there are no easy external symptoms with depression. The experience is entirely internal, which means it relies on your ability to assess your own feelings as accurately as possible. When I was a kid, I used to feel guilty when my mom kept me home from school for being sick, because I wasn’t sure I was sick enough. This was like that, only worse.

Depression part two by Allie Brosch

At first, I'd try to explain that it's not really negativity or sadness anymore, it's more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can't feel anything about anything — even the things you love, even fun things — and you're horribly bored and lonely, but since you've lost your ability to connect with any of the things that would normally make you feel less bored and lonely, you're stuck in the boring, lonely, meaningless void without anything to distract you from how boring, lonely, and meaningless it is.