![Demi Lovato, singer, music, sounds, mental health, suicide, Warrior, bipolar disorder, advocacy, eating disorder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/12/Demi-Lovato-artist-musician-singer-songwriter-music-sounds-mental-health-suicide-Warrior-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Demi Lovato is an actress and singer, and a well-known name in the entertainment industry across the globe. Growing up in the spotlight, Lovato is known for being a child…
![Art, Therapy, bipolar disorder, Treatment, Mental Health, mental illness, images, painting, Jackson Pollock, depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Emma-Semptember-Feature-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Jackson Pollock was an American painter who suffered from bipolar disorder and alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock founded the Abstract Expressionist Movement introducing a dramatic new style of painting referred to as…
![Asylum](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/11/young-nov-feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Unfortunately,…
![Finding Beauty in Ugliness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/03/33011485600_340705e895_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Canadian musician Matthew Good discusses his paralyzing battle with bipolar disorder in this TEDx Toronto presentation. He begins the story with his voluntary stay at…
![Touched With Fire](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/02/VanGogh-starry_night_Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Touched With Fire” is an exploration of bipolar disorder, art, and the difficulties of maintaining a relationship while coping with mental health issues. This film,…
![Manic Depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/11/4746222641_d3a2ae6e07_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The song “Manic Depression” by Jimi Hendrix exposes “the frustrating mess” of this illness, now known as bipolar disorder. Hendrix himself was never diagnosed as…
![Alone](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/09/Ambitions-Abandoned-web-_-Davies-_-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The author of “Alone”, Edgar Allen Poe, experienced many setbacks in his short life. These influenced his writing and helped define his literary style. First,…
![Living with Bipolar](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/06/chains-433541_1920-_-geralt-_-Pixaby-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Student Laura Bain lives with bipolar disorder and describes her condition in this thought-provoking TEDx Talk. She illustrates the turmoil of what life is like…
![Photography Documenting Mental Illness Draws Criticism](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/06/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For the past six years, Melissa Spitz of St. Louis, Missouri has been using photography to illustrate her mother’s experience with mental illness, referring to…
![Are You Happy Yet?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/05/Untitled-470x140.png?x81652)
Through a creative short video featured on Buzzfeed, one woman used her prescribed medication as a way to illustrate her struggle with mental illness. “I cannot…