“Anger is like a child, you don’t want to let it drive the car, and you certainly don’t want to stuff it in the trunk…
Hamideh Abol, is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose mixed-media arts are focused on immigration, war, personal, and social crisis issues. Hamideh’s painting, “Grief,” depicts different stages…
“Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by writer and therapist Lori Gottlieb is a memoir exploring the…
Caring for someone who is experiencing mental health problems comes with a complicated and unique set of challenges. It can be difficult to know where…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. People experience persistent flashbacks and recurring thoughts of the traumatic event; to…
“I Feel Your Pain” is a song by the electronic musician Famba. The song is written from the perspective of a friend of someone suffering…
Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, criminal defence lawyer Raymond Boggs discusses people who use the ‘Not Criminally Responsible by Reason…
The poem “EPISODE I—CLINICAL DEPRESSION” BY AKIF KICHLOO dives into his struggle with his own diagnosis of depression and the separation as an individual from…
The famous Victorian photographer Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) best known for pioneering combination printing in joining multiple negatives to form a single image, captured the…
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the United States. Domestic and intimate partner violence are pervasive issues affecting many individuals worldwide, often whom…
In the United States, one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives. 63% of sexual…
Disclaimer: Please note that the following post discusses a song which contains some explicit lyrics. The song “FRIENDS” is a track from artist J. Cole’s…
Rae Morgan, a mental health advocate, writer and storyteller, created these pieces while she was hospitalized in an outpatient program with bipolar disorder. She says…
“The Road Not Taken” is a classic poem written by Robert Frost and published in 1916 in his collection Mountain Interval. It is often misinterpreted…
One evening, while out for drinks at a bar in downtown Toronto, a friend of mine, Jason (name changed for anonymity), a resident and actor…
This Ted Talk by Susannah Temko talks about the shame and prejudice associated with the intersex community. Drawing from her own experiences Temko explains how…
Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma Report writer Emma Bennet speaks with Ashley Rose Murphy, an ambassador for the Canadian Foundation for…
Has overthinking become more prominent due to the increased time we are spending isolated with only our inner monologue as company? Willow Smith, professionally known…
Janelia Mould, a photographer based in South Africa, specializes in shooting surreal concept images that tell a unique story. Her series Melancholy — A Girl…
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947-April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. She is known for her works that are characterized by simple, spare…
