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Remnants still remain of an abandoned asylum that used to house the criminally insane in New York. A photographer by the name of Freaktography managed to…
![Horror Films Reduce Anxiety for Some](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/Anxiety-Horror-Fight-or-Flight-Amygdala-PTSD-Mental-Health-Trauma-Adrenaline-Burnout-Stress-Cinema-470x140.jpg?x81652)
My love for the horror genre began as soon as I was able to operate my VHS player. By the age of ten, I had…
![Suicide, Poetry, Langston Hughes, Words, Death, Emotion, Powerful, River, Personification, Calm](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/82E84C58-05D7-46FB-8000-DAF426069901-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Langston Hughes was a significant literary figure in the 1920s, with his writings being instrumental in shaping the Harlem Renaissance Period. He used his literature…
![Trauma, music therapy, childhood sexual abuse, Mental Health, video, healing](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/2F33071D-1343-411B-87E3-E70413C6A7B8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Music therapist Karla Hawley shares her harrowing story of childhood sexual abuse in this TEDx Talk. Karla found her healing through a nostalgic piece of…
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In 1999, American girl group TLC produced a song called “Unpretty.” The purpose of the song is to encourage adolescent women to embrace an identity rooted in self-acceptance…
![Visual Art, Photography, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Recovery, Coping, Addiction, Eating Disorder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/6A72AE51-AC34-4BE5-8562-E3969B2FDA98-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This series of images created by York University student Jessica Butler, represents her struggle with anxiety. The series represents internally feeling overwhelmed and chaotic, while…
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“In today’s modern Society, cultural significance is dying out…As we go along, more and more Native culture is forgotten. What happened in history has made…
![Happiness advantage, mental health, happiness, coping Change, stress, challenges, overcoming, positive psychology, achievement](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/1CD7B225-DFCF-42B3-9F7D-654079D83697-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Author and Psychology professor Shawn Achor uses concepts from positive psychology to explain how a positive brain fuels success and happiness in all aspects of…
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This TED-Ed lesson by psychologist Natasha M. Santos debunks three of the main myths surrounding obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The animated video aims to clear…