![Jump They Say](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/01/jump-470x140.png?x81652)
“Jump They Say” written and performed by David Bowie is a song about Bowie’s brother, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and jumped from a building…
![Hurt](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/01/hurt-470x140.png?x81652)
“Hurt”, by Nine Inch Nails describes band member and lead vocalist Trent Reznor’s struggle with self-harm, heroin addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts. He uses writing…
![What's so funny about mental illness?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/01/smiling-green-apple-333x140.jpg?x81652)
In her TedTalk entitled “What’s so Funny About Mental Illness?”, Ruby Wax, a comedian diagnosed with clinical depression, explains how she uses comedy to deal…
![Kidnapped Journalist Looks Inward to Heal from Torture](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/12/Marica-Feature-1-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
In 2008, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped while documenting the civil war in Somalia. After 460 days of repeated beatings, rapes, and other abuses…