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Glennon Doyle is an author, activist, and non-profit executive. From the age of 8 Glennon struggled with bulimia, and later addiction, which she speaks openly…
![Mental Health, song, music, mental illness, anxiety, sounds, Lyrics, Billie Eilish, depression, sounds, self-image](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/1718798D-2BC0-4490-AC76-590302BC5B28-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Idontwannabeyouanymore” is a well-known single released in 2017 by singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. The song addresses Billie’s low self-confidence and insecurities, among other things. It is…
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“I think I’ve always struggled with my mental health. Even as a little girl I can remember being uncontrollably sad and stand-offish from people… I…
![Suicide, Death, Portrait, Post-impressionism, Dysentery, Creativity, Images, Psychology, Mental Health, Suffering](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/C520AA92-71B0-4C67-A901-4969373870A8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Day of the God (Mahana no Atua)” was painted in 1894 by Paul Gauguin. Gauguin was a French post-impressionist artist who only became renowned after his…
![Mental health, words, art, therapy, emotions, depression, stress, mental illness, trauma, awareness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/CDFD9FCC-FA76-4DF6-A180-CD48FECFBBBD-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
AfterTrauma is a website that allows survivors of trauma to speak up about their experiences and find support through the stories of others. The Centre…
![mental health, video, short film, anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders, mental illness, therapy](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/DB7A43A2-97B5-47C3-AB3E-BB2A11633AD9-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Empty” is an award winning short film about a woman, Kiera, living with an eating disorder and her battle with the hypercritical voices in her…
![sounds, song, scatman, scatman john, stutter, trauma, hurt, anguish, coping, addiction, substance abuse, alcohol abuse, music, video](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/IMG_0550-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Remember “Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)”, that mainstay of every 90’s top hits compilation? If you remember the lyrics to the song, you might recall that they outline how…
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As a child, I would sometimes find myself wide-awake in bed, but unable to move. Some nights, I would hear voices in my room, as…
![Life-On-The-Lines,-Mental-Health,-Stigma,-TTC,-art,-awareness,-artists,-mental-illness,-photography,-images,-Jessica-Okonski](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/Life-On-The-Lines-Mental-Health-Stigma-TTC-art-awareness-artists-mental-illness-photography-images-Jessica-Okonski-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Life On The Line, a non-profit art project organized by Twentytwenty Arts, featured prints of original artworks by 20 local artists displayed inside subway trains, in Toronto. This…
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Based in Chicago, Illinois, Bianca Phipps is an actor, teaching artist, and spoken word poet. Her poem, “Almosts,” explores the loss and grief she experienced after the…