Depression & Mood Disorder Articles

​Exhaustion Seven Days a Week, Except One

By Sydney
In an attempt to describe her feelings about her constant state of tiredness, Sydney takes to writing to express her emotions, with an amendment from the next day.

Life on SSRI's

By Jazz
This piece by Jazz offers a candid, personal account of her experience using SSRIs (antidepressants) for depression, detailing the initial side effects, the need to switch medications, and key takeaways about finding the right treatment and managing long-term side effects.

​Isn't it ironic?

By Chelsea
​In this article, Chelsea will start and end with a rant of how life is turning into a circle. Specifically, a circle of constant sadness which is sadly ironic. Play the song “ironic” by Alanis Morissette, Alexa.

​​Anhedonia

By Inderjeet
In this article, Inderjeet explains what Anhedonia is and how to manage it.

​Feeling Empty

By Chloë 
In this article, Chloë explains the strange feeling of ‘emptiness’ and gives tips on how to cope when you feel like this.

​Helping a family member with depression

By Molly
Molly explains how having a family member who struggles with depression is not only difficult for that family member but also those around them.

Having a depressed friend

By Tasha
Tasha explains her experience with having a friend suffer from mental health. She used her experience to provide advice for dealing with these situations.

Types of depression

By Indie
​In this article, Indie discusses the different types of depression and how to cope with them.

How to Get Yourself Out of a Rut

By Tabitha
Tabitha speaks on what to do in order to get yourself out of a rut whenever you feel like you’ve reached your peak or you don’t know your next steps.

Depression is like a shadow

By Mel
​In this article Mel will be discussing how depression follows you around like a shadow, it’s always on your shoulder.

The Lesser Known

By Indie
In which, Indie will talk about the lesser-known symptoms of depression that a lot of people may not know about. ​

​The Happiness Pill

By Indie
In this article, Indie will be exposing the side effects of antidepressants and how to combat them when the medication gets too "rough." ​

depression with ant-vax parents

By Katelyn
In this article, Katelyn demonstrates her struggle with juggling depression and her doctors’ and parents’ conflicting views on how to cure it. ​

Dealing with Depression and joining twe

By Cody
Cody talks about his experience with depression, the advice from his GP and how being a member of TWE helped him

How to understand suicide

By Fin
Fin talks about his personal story and how even if someone you didn’t know commits suicide, it can still affect you and others around you in sensitive ways and how to understand it.

seasonal depression and adulting

By Jazz
Jazz writes about how her experience with seasonal depression, and how it can hit even harder once you've grown up, and how to combat this

Just Sad

By Kenzie
Kenzie talks about how sometimes feeling sad can be normal and justified and the importance of giving yourself time to just "feel sad".

Keeping a positive mindset

By Yaz
Yaz discusses depression; giving you the reader some facts and her personal experience and offers help by showing the support that can be given.

Digging yourself out of that rut

By Paula
Paula explores the random feelings of a negative mindset and how to start thinking better to feel better. She explains how to start getting better starts with a decision to feel better.

Depression and A-Levels

By Jazz
Jazz draws from her own experience to give advice on how to manage depression and A levels. She also explains other options if it's not working out

Cheer Up Buttercup

By Chloe
Chloe describes her experience of loneliness and it's impact on her mental health and shares what she has learnt.​

I'm not tired!

​By Locket
A short article defining Chronic Fatigue with suggestions of ways to deal with it. Are you unreasonably tired? This might be you.

Depression in the Winter

By Hollie
Hollie describes seasonal depression and suggests ideas for how to help lift your mood

Lack of motivation

By Imogen
Imogen understands what this is like and shares some things that were helpful for her in fighting it

Decisions with depression

By Sarah
Sarah offers advice to make decisions with depression easier. She knows they can be overwhelming and through her own story gives hope that there are second chances

Going To School When Feeling Down

​By Jazz
Jazz uses her experience regarding school and mental health to provide advice regarding how you can manage attending school, even when your mental health isn't the best.

Depression vs life

​By Cassandra
Cassandra uses her experience with depression to provide advice regarding dealing with depression when it makes life difficult. She explains how she understands how difficult depression can be, and uses this to provide helpful pieces of advice to help you cope.

Loneliness

By Emily
Emily describes the five main reasons some people experience loneliness. She uses some of this research to provide useful pieces of advice for helping battle loneliness and help yourself feel better.

Productivity and bad days

By Jazz
On a bad day it can seem impossible to be productive. Jazz empathises and motivates to work through it

Depression

By Katie
Katie explains how there is no 'normal' way to think, which can be especially useful when discussing mental health! Using her experiences, she is able to provide advice for dealing with depression.