![Melancholy](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/12/Edvard_Munch_-_Melancholy_1893-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Edvard Munch, famous for his work “The Scream“, was one of many Post-Impressionists who illustrated their experiences with mental illness. His work “Melancholy” depicts the…
![The Girl I Used To Be "PTSD"](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/12/1024px-2yo_daughter-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In this poem, the author only known as Trobers discusses her experience of returning from war with PTSD, and recalls the girl she used to…
![Expressing the Inner Voice May Bring Benefits](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/11/faces-73493_1280-470x140.jpg?x81652)
An app called Dragon Anywhere allows people to talk to their smart phone with no word or time limits. Talking out loud with a piece…
![Why?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/12/4472889356_6c9a84f916_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For their sixth studio album, Unstoppable, Rascal Flatts wrote “Why”, a powerful, slow-tempo, country song about a friend’s suicide. The song’s narrator reflects on the…
![Beauty out of the Divide](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/12/Mentalillness-470x140.jpg?x81652)
This photograph shows a mural from the Berlin Wall, which was constructed by the Soviet Union in 1961 to separate East and West Germany. The…
![The Fantastic Duo](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/12/weroni.deviantart.comartMy-Reality-629048103-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“The Fantastic Duo” is a poem by Deceptive Cheese (pseudonym). The narrative depicts a battle between the depression and anxiety that plague the author. Throughout…
![In Long-Term Care, Patient-on-Patient Violence on the Rise](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/11/Feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
A January 2016 Vancouver Sun article reported on 16 seniors in British Columbia (BC) killed in the last 4 years from violence in long-term care…
![A Day of Hearing Voices](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/11/14122311740_c2d0254212_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Attempting to go through a normal day using a schizophrenia simulator, CNN’s Anderson Cooper demonstrates the difficulties that individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia face every day,…
![Manic Depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/11/4746222641_d3a2ae6e07_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The song “Manic Depression” by Jimi Hendrix exposes “the frustrating mess” of this illness, now known as bipolar disorder. Hendrix himself was never diagnosed as…