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…
‘Explaining My Depression to My Mom’ is a poem by Sabrina Benaim presented at Button Poetry, an organization dedicated to the production and distribution of…
In this video, Thomas Insel, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, explains the benefits of early detection of mental illnesses. Feature Image:…
Sure, writers dismiss it. But the semicolon –the otherwise underwhelming punctuation mark– has had its share of fans. Like American physician and poet Lewis Thomas,…
‘Dose’ is part of an installation called ‘Girls Behind Bars’ by Pharmacopoeia, a group of three artists whose main objective is to engage the public…
‘Guns for Hands’, a song by Twenty-One Pilots, offers a strong contrast of an up-beat rhythm and dark powerful lyrics. The song follows a story…
From the darkness of despair, Gemma Correll and Allie Brosh have created deeply personal cartoons to illustrate their experiences with mental illness. Maintaining popular online…
‘Spilled Ink’, a poem by Shiane Salabie, explains her personal struggle of dealing with everyday challenges. In the powerful lines, Salabie speaks to the idea…
On April 26, 2015, 19-year-old Timothy Henderson, a resident of the North West Territories in Canada, was taken off life support after sustaining self-harm injuries,…
In a short video featured on Buzzfeed four brave individuals discuss their attempts at taking their own lives. The video–and accompanying article–offers insight on how they coped and developed personal…
