Hey guys, it’s been a little while hasn’t it? This is our first blog post since January of this year, and, honestly, it’s been a long...

This is the first official Thing With Feathers blog post of 2018, and before we get into anything big or heavy this year, we wanted to...

In my last post, I shared with you guys a bit of my story with self-harm. But a lot of people are going to want to know some ways to help...

In my first two posts, I gave a little background about my mindset and the road I have followed so far but for this post, I want to focus...

“Wait, it will get better.” This sentiment gets old. Fast. Sometimes it seems it’s all people are able to say when you bring them your...

In my first post, I shared with you guys some ways that socializing can actually help you cope. Your social life plays a large role in...

As someone who believes that the solution to mental illness often lies outside of medication, peer support is a vital ingredient to the...

I was initially diagnosed as having an unspecified mood disorder. I kid you not, those are the literal words in my file. It was later...

Thing With Feathers was created to address the stigma surrounding mental health illness and that is something that is incredibly...

In the last decade or so, the number of youth with mental illness has skyrocketed. Rates of depression and anxiety in youth have...

Stigma is a problem within the mental health community that is discussed at large, but we often fail to discuss where it comes from. The...

When you have a mental illness, even the most normal tasks can be a battle to get through. The demanding nature of today’s school system...

For many people, myself included, fiction is a method of escape. We find that we connect with fictional characters and their experiences,...

Out of all the useful coping strategies I have seen in my search through the internet, one of the nicest is probably the “Self-Care Box.”...

As summer approaches and school comes to an end for many people, I think it’s very important to remind everyone to find ways to keep...

This past Saturday, the Thing With Feathers team attended an event in our hometown of Carrollton, Georgia known as MayFest. It was the...

Something I find is often forgotten by many is that mental illness looks different in everyone. There is no definitive format that mental...

Thing With Feathers started simply as a dream - a way to help a few friends out and maybe make a small difference along the way, but now...