!['OCD' by Dani Fray](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/14088741243_283e9ca5eb_b-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Directed by Dani Fray of the York University Department of Theatre, Film, and Television, “OCD” is a short fillm that follows the average morning of…
![Paralegal Training Empowers Nepalese Human Trafficking Victims](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/Feature2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In Nepal, the incidence of human trafficking has grown in the past decade. Each year, over 7,000 women and girls are trafficked out to India,…
![Anxiety by Edvard Munch](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/anxiety-470x140.jpg?x81652)
‘Anxiety’ is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Edvard Munch in 1894. Many believe that the painting closely resembles Munch’s famous work titled ‘The Scream’. The…
![Break the Silence](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/Untitled-470x140.png?x81652)
In this TedTalk from 2011, JD Schramm–a Stanford University business professor–addresses the need to break the silence around suicide. He also makes an appeal for…
![One of my turns](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Song-2-Image-2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“One of My Turns” by Pink Floyd is an eerie song describing the instant an individual goes from being stable to having a psychotic breakdown….
![Seeing the light](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/bipolar-art-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
David Feingold is an artist who was hit by a car when he was a child and sustained a significant traumatic brain injury, which led…
![When Sexual Assault Victims Don’t “Resist”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/Feature1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Lara Mcleod was just 19 when she was reportedly raped by Joaquin Rams, the fiancée of her elder sister. At the time Lara stated that…
![Trellis](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Untitled2-432x140.jpg?x81652)
‘Trellis’ documents the agony and trauma of young girl reacting to her friend’s sexual assault. The poet, Andrew Gibson uses vivid imagery and rhetoric to…
![Toward A New Understanding Of Mental Illness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Video-1-Image-3-470x140.png?x81652)
In the past 30 years, major advances have been made in the treatment of serious medical diseases. Today, there are 85% fewer deaths from leukemia…