Guest post invitation

This post is  to invite you to write a guest post, should you wish to.

As an aside, my pointer has been at zero or close to it for several days now, thanks for asking.  Actually in general this year I have not been too bad, and sometime I'll post about a trick that has been working for me.  But specifically starting this blog has been helpful because it has given me something to do and make me feel we can do something about this.  Except that feeling good gives me a bit of that imposter syndrome again.

We do want a community and we are more about people telling them stories than giving advice.

It the minute we do not have a great setup for guest posts, but you can do this easily: just mail us at depressed.academics@gmail.com and we can put something up.   It will appear under one of our names but we can credit you.   Of course we will credit your preferred name, real, pseudonym, or anonymous.

Posts will be published under the share-alike creative commons licence, but you will retain copyright.

What not to say to someone with depression

This post is just a link to an excellent post on an unrelated blog with this title.

Since many depressed academics don't like to talk about depression, and especially don't like to tell people they have it, it's an issue many of us face.   Many of these responses chime with me, but I think perhaps the one that might be more specialist in academia is "Oh, that's interesting, tell me about it!" since academics are interested in stuff.   Not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.

I'll just quote the first paragraph and send you on your way:

I’ve come to the conclusion that most people who have never experienced depression have no idea how to react when I tell them I have a mental illness. They either look away and change the subject, or say some infuriating things. I often bite my tongue to hold back my honest replies. Here is a compilation of my ‘favourites’, and the things I would love to say back but daren’t:

The Melancholic Mummy: What Not To Say To Someone With Depression