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Why So Sad? x Actions REALized

To date, over the course of the Good Egg 1 & 2, and the 2019 Why So Sad? Mission, we’ve raised around $13,000 for SAMH, Grassroots Suicide Prevention and the Johns Hopkins research into treatment of major depression. For this next phase, we’ll be helping out Rob, Susie and Lucy push forward with their work […]

Shralp for Ben: Carl Harling’s Mission for the Ben Raemers Foundation

Details of the ongoing Why So Sad? mission for mental health can be found here. Read on for a conversation with Carl Harling who is riding his bike and skating his way down the west coast in memory of Ben Raemers and in aid of the Ben Raemers Foundation…

Why So Sad? 2019 Mission for Mental Health

In memory of my sister, Katrina, and pro-skater Ben Raemers, I plan on riding my bike 100 miles and finally — in my early 40s — doing my first proper Sad Plant. All money raised gets split between three good organizations doing some of the best work to reduce depression and provide access to tools, […]

Why So Sad? Three Options to Support the 2019 let’s-end-depression-and-suicide cycle-skate mission.

Learn about John Rattray’s 2019 mission to reduce depression and end suicide.

Ben Raemers: Some thoughts on depression and its worst-case conclusion

Ben Raemers was the sweetest, funnest kid I ever toured with. I only traveled with Ben a couple of times, first through Europe and then through the Pacific North West. Now, in light of his recent death, I realize that there was a subtle anxiety in him that only in hindsight I see was the […]