![My Name is Not Schizophrenia: Removing the Label](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/01/Sad_boy_Wallpaper_1600x1200_wallpaperhere-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Derogatory language hurts when an individual is diagnosed with a mental illness. And few mental illnesses provoke such derision and insensitivity as schizophrenia. Opinions about…
![Death Becomes Us: The Psychological Trauma of Killing](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/01/skulls-and-bones-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one, wounds himself with the other. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Psychiatric breakdown is one of…
![Going High (version 5) - David Richardson](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Going-High-version-5-David-Richardson-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“It seems to me that I have two distinct styles to my creativity. The first is when I am in an elated, highed creative state,…
![Alan Streets The Brooklyn Bridge](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Alan-Streets-the-Brooklyn-Bridge-224x140.jpeg?x81652)
A haunting documentary about Alan Streets, a paranoid schizophrenic, as he struggles to succeed as an artist in New York City.
![Room: A Nightmare, Real and Imagined](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/01/empty_room_by_mimose_stock-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Imagine the only world you’ve ever known measuring eleven by eleven feet. The only source of natural light is a single skylight, and you have…
![Presley LaFountain](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Presley-LaFountain-205x140.jpeg?x81652)
Presley LaFountain, a Santa Fe artist thankful for the life-saving care he received at University of New Mexico Hospital’s level one trauma center, contributed his…
![Haunted Boiler Room - Innsmouth Fishwife (deviantart)](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/A-Family-Man_-StoryCorps-470x140.jpg?x81652)
By: StoryCorps In 1955, John L. Black, Sr. started his job as a janitor for the Cincinnati public school system. He regularly put in 16-hour…
![Falling Through the Cracks: The Case of James Holmes](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/jail_cells1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
As the case of James Holmes unfolds, I find myself growing more concerned at each turn. Psychiatrist Lynne Fenton reportedly not only suspected James Holmes…
![Are You Leaving?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Are-You-Leaving-470x140.jpg?x81652)
by: Cristina Molino http://vimeo.com/36757565 Leaving can be harder than just getting on a train. Produced by: Think Mol Producciones (thinkmol.com) Directed by: Cristina Molino