What Are We To Do With All This Grief?
Long before the pandemic hit, we were already a country in mourning.
Depression
Why Are More Women Dying by Suicide?
The suicide rate among women has increased exponentially for the past 20 years. The burden of trying to do it all just may be the culprit.
My Mother Has Always Wanted to Die. Do I Let Her?
After a lifetime of living with her mother’s mental illness, our writer reckons with the love of a parent who longs to say good-bye.
Are We United in a State of Depression?
Misery has found a lot of company since November 9. Which this chronically depressed writer finds oddly empowering, as she strategizes how to live in this dystopic new world.
Can the Love of a Dog Be As Powerful As an Anti-Depressant?
Julie Klam talks about dogs, depression, and writing with Julie Barton, whose moving new memoir ‘Dog Medicine’ is a tribute to the golden retriever who rescued her from her darkest hours.
Dear Julie: “My BFF Is Reveling In Pity Parties on Facebook”
DAME's Friendkeeper helps a woman struggling with depression and another whose pal puts her pain on parade.
Must-Read Links: Planned Parenthood “Whores,” Gloria Steinem + More
The most compelling stories from our favorite sources.
Does Wanting Only One Child Make Me a Bad Mother?
The writer always assumed she'd want more than one kid … until she didn’t. The feelings that arose about family, fear, marriage, and career were more complicated than she could’ve imagined.
Is Loneliness Really That Bad?
Studies have found that the outlook is grim for the chronically lonely. But the writer, an acute sufferer, may have found salvation … from her very own bookcase.
How Will I Survive August Without My Shrink?
Many mental-health professionals take up to a month-long vacation in late summer. Which fills clients—like this grief-stricken writer—with existential dread.