It all started with a girl named Renee Yohe, who would eventually be played by Kat Dennings in the 2012 film about the movement. Looking back at their origins, and their success, is an interesting case study in how just talking about mental health issues openly can inspire a lot of hope. And in many ways, TWLOHA can be seen as maybe the first grassroots viral awareness campaign, a sort of pre-cursor to the social media activism we have today. From #freethenipple to #HeForShe, hashtags make headlines, and even make headway for their cause. With the rise of Twitter, Facebook, and other powerful social media platforms, it seems like there's a new hashtag campaign for a cause every week. Since it was created in the spring of 2006, To Write Love On Her Arms has become an official non-profit that's given more than $1.5 million to mental health organizations, and sold 48,000 of their now iconic T-shirts, tanks, and sweats in 2015 alone.

Yep, TWLOHA didn't just make its mark on Myspace and LiveJournal - it's survived on Facebook and Tumblr, too. This month marks 10 years since those first social posts started, and you might be surprised to know that the message is still spreading across the web. I would've thought it was a band, if not for the dreamy images I sometimes stumbled across on social media (which back then consisted only of MySpace and LiveJournal), captioned 'To Write Love On Her Arms,' urging the reader to remember that they weren't alone if they were feeling depressed or suicidal, or if they were battling drug addiction. Like a lot of millennials my age, To Write Love On Her Arms is a vague memory of my high school experience, one that conjures images of girls with thick black eyeliner and boys who wore fuzzy sweatbands bought at Hot Topic.

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