![It’s My Life and I Can Wish If I Want To](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/03/Feature-Marica-V.-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Where do we draw the line between wishing for better fortune and using fantasy as escape? This question is at the heart of a recent…
![Control by Halsey](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/02/17146927765_85872d783a_o-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Control, a song performed by artist Halsey, is a personification of her own mental illness. After being diagnosis with bipolar disorder in her teenage years,…
![Why Are We Still Sterilizing Women with Disabilities?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/Feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
A recent study, conducted by the Washington-based group Disability Rights International, found that the sexual abuse and forced sterilization of Mexican women with psychological disabilities…
![RUSH Prevention Program Helping Children of Bipolar Parents](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/05/Feature-11-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“It was just kind of not knowing what you were going to get every time. Emotionally when I was younger, I always cared about her….
![Film Review: “Silver Linings Playbook”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/03/Ruth.SilverLinings.FeaturedImage-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
With its unique blend of humour and tragedy that mirror true life circumstances, Silver Linings Playbook is a triumph. Directed by David O. Russell, it…
![Going High (version 5) - David Richardson](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Going-High-version-5-David-Richardson-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“It seems to me that I have two distinct styles to my creativity. The first is when I am in an elated, highed creative state,…