Anonymous asked: Would you care to explain how the world glamorizes the clinical disease of depression? I'm not quite sure if that's accurate.

Maybe the word “depression” wasn’t the all encompassing term- I meant it in the respect of it’s being a “state of disparity or emptiness.”

For instance, I’ve been seeing many photos of women with distant and empty gazes, with the occasional smeared make-up and cigarette in hand. The impression I’ve been receiving is that media is circulating this image of woman, the ebbing numbness that seems to seep through her, and redefining what the world’s standard of beauty or glamour to be this.

I do understand that there is beauty in the broken. I hold true to the Beautitudes in the book of Matthew, blessing the poor in spirit.

However, the portrayal of such brokenness in the design world is different from the brokenness that Matthew talks about. It seems to encourage young women to fit into this insentient archetype. I know this only because those messages are impacting me as a fellow sister. I see these images and think, “perhaps this is beauty, perhaps I should present myself in such a way.”

The world needs to show empowerment in their portrayal of women, in their gentleness and purity, not in their deadness. 

I hope that what I wrote doesn’t offend or discourage you because I’m definitely not trying to poke at depression; in that, I believe that it’s a serious and sensitive subject matter. I’m sorry if you were in any way discouraged by what I said for that was not the intention.