![Despair, Isolation, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Illness, Suicidality, Twenty One Pilots, Music, Sadness, Loneliness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/safa-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Trapdoor” is a song on the self-titled album by band Twenty One Pilots. Released in 2009, the track deals with emotions including despair, isolation and…
![Online, Cyberpsychology, Mental Health, Disclosure, Community, Social Support, Platforms, Discussion, Sharing, Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Empowering](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/deana-1-feature2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“I would say that the liberation outweighs the fear.” Jack Bingham, author of the book Obsessive Compulsive Dramatic, has a long history of disclosing his…
![Painting the Highs and Lows of Life](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/456CCA40-D618-4110-AC30-F1BAD2FA027E-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Erica De Ciantis is a Toronto-based visual artist. She primarily works in oil paint on stretched canvas but is also exploring digital art as well…
![novel, young, trauma, sexual abuse, poverty, depression, loneliness, sexism, racism, punk](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/9775E0C2-52BD-4259-B2D2-CAAE81AF00FE-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Blood and Guts in High School is a postmodern novel by Kathy Acker that incorporates multiple art forms such as prose, poetry, visual art and intertextual…
![Trauma, foster care, homeless children, Storyboard Project, Mental Health, mental illness, documentary, Mira Zimet, youth, healing](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/842EB754-88C8-48E7-9132-D24EC4973CCE-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Mira Zimet is a visual storyteller and an award-winning documentary film maker. She founded the Storyboard Project, an award-winning documentary web-series about foster youth who…
![Mental health, Saving, Self care, Priorities, Self help, Love, Pain, song, mental health, Ed Sheeran](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/4FFC1D6F-3625-42E6-B325-E1A22B5F1058-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The song “Save Myself” by Ed Sheeran relays a strong message that can teach many of us a lesson. In the song Sheeran expresses that…
![therapists, graduate school, mental health, training, self-care, therapy, mental well-being, stigma, burnout, therapist, suicide](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/safa-1-feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In September 2019, two mental health advocates tragically took their own lives within the same week. The suicides of Gregory Eells, the head of counselling…
![Lithograph, Art, Artist, Mental Health, Trauma, Mental Illness, Anxiety, Disassociation, Drama, Anger, Surprise, Sadness, Happiness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/01/3BD58D7E-ABFB-4EE1-B16E-A827A4CC95F9-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The lithograph “Not My Thyroid”, created by artist Julia Morgan features complex images related to mental health. The lithograph shows a faceless woman with long…
![Childhood, Memoir, Glass, Castle, Addiction, Alcoholism, Fantasy, Neglect, Poverty, Dysfunction, Unconditional Love, Selfish, Hardship](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Khad3_Body_1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“The Glass Castle” is a memoir by Jeannette Walls which details her childhood growing up in a family with an intelligent, yet unfortunately alcoholic father…