Pistol is a song written and sung by the lead singer and guitarist of a band called Cigarettes After Sex. The band is infamously known…
We spend the majority of our time either at work or in school, possibly seeing our colleagues more than our family and friends. However, we…
Breaking the vicious cycle of addiction is never easy. For Metallica frontman James Hetfield, Bleeding Me was written as a way to express his feelings…
Jan Matejko’s 1862 painting Stańczyk offers an exploration of what it means to have high functioning depression. In solitary the figure of a jester. Traditionally…
The asylum process for refugees is often portrayed through statistics and policy debates, but behind the headlines are deeply personal stories of fear, resilience, and…
Girl, Interrupted, based on the memoir by Susanna Kaysen, is a powerful film about mental illness and being a young woman in a world that…
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter famous for his Scream painting. After it’s success, he painted Anxiety, another portrait of his mental illness. Munch was…
In today’s episode, Contributing Writer Ruby Kagan speaks with James Downs, a lived experience mental health research expert in eating disorders, looking at the label…
“Prozac Positivity” by Stephen James Smith, a poet and playwright from Dublin, is powerful spoken word piece where he opens up about his deeply personal…
“While most places your mind saves JPEGs, mine has text files instead.” This is how Mike (name changed for anonymity) describes living with complete aphantasia….
