![Addiction, Depression, Drugs, Anxiety, Words, Music, Psychology, Substance Dependence, Mental Health, Trauma, Mother Mother, relationships, love](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Courtney-Semptember-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The lyrics in the song “The Drugs” by Mother Mother describe the extensive impact that addiction can have on an individual and the cumulative toll that drug-dependency can have…
![When Bipolar Disorder Brings Marital Distress](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/feature-1-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In a busy urban community church, Reverend John Tahir, a parish minister, enjoys many moments helping and advising members of his congregation. One of his…
![music, playlist, heartbreak, loneliness, sadness, loss, coping, grief, healing, death, love, songs](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Mollia-August-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
1. Kanye West, ‘Only One 2. Radiohead – ‘Videotape’ 3.Rufus Wainwright – ‘Memphis Skyline’ 4. AFI – ‘This Time Imperfect’ 5. Tiger Army – ‘Where the Moss…
![Art, Therapy, bipolar disorder, Treatment, Mental Health, mental illness, images, painting, Jackson Pollock, depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Emma-Semptember-Feature-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Jackson Pollock was an American painter who suffered from bipolar disorder and alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock founded the Abstract Expressionist Movement introducing a dramatic new style of painting referred to as…
![art, american, coping, mental health, nature, peace, perseverance, poem, poet laureate, poetry, Robert Frost, nature](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Old-Henry-August-470x140.jpg?x81652)
American poet Robert Frost’s famous poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” uses nature imagery to reveal that every good time or “gold” moment is fleeting and…
![Social Media is Not Real Life](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Althea-August-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Instagram has become a platform that enables and expands the careers of “social media influencers,” individuals who are the face of advertisements for many companies and…
![When Children are Freed from Captivity –What Happens Afterward?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On occasion, we hear of extreme cases of child abuse, making family names like the Turpins infamous. The 13 Turpin children were held captive in…
![Regret, Death, Loss, Grief, Music, Healing, Parenting, Tragedy, Sadness, Depression, Eric Clapton, Tears in Heavan, Fatherhood, Child](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Eleni-Augusut-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Eric Clapton’s song “Tears in Heaven” could possibly be the saddest song ever written about losing a loved one. Dealing with the loss of his four-year-old son who fell from the…
![The Potato Eaters](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/David-August-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
One of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces, “The Potato Eaters” serves as a gritty snapshot of a peasant family struggling to survive in the Netherlands during…