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Channeling the Dark: Mental Health and Why I Write

Earlier this month, I was tagged in  this video  by Nick Carlson, author of  Hell's Gulf . The publisher he released this novel under, Temple Dark Books, has started a campaign called "Channel The Dark" ; an initiative benefitting SOSAD Ireland, a mental health awareness organization operating in its titular country. As you can read on the page, it is an event built around encouraging writers to speak about how writing benefits mental health culminating with releasing an anthology contributed to by a variety of Speculative Fiction authors, with all proceeds going to SOSAD Ireland. It is a great cause and one dear to me. No one deserves to be left to fend for themselves in the darkness. I feel like writing helps me to get my mind in order. When my mouth fails to form the words I desperately need to get out, maybe even scream out, writing them down is a way of expressing them thoroughly without the social awkwardness of blowing out my voice box at a soccer mom couponing thr