![Words on Bathroom Walls](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/06/23D58579-08E6-400A-B35F-7D0B21FDE3E6-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The movie “Words on Bathroom Walls”, released in 2020, follows Adam Petrazelli as he balances high school and the challenges of his mental health diagnosis….
![Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, trauma, comorbidity, diagnosis, treatment,](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/10/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
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…
![depression, circle of life, life, individuals, diagnosis, serious, illness, mental health, healing, treatment](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/10/1B90AB05-16B3-45D2-AC05-3E330367E8F2-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
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…
![mental health, mental illness, bipolar disorder, depression, mania, youth, teenager, stigma, diagnosis, help](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/07/Feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle,…
![Anxiety, Crocodile, In Between, Animation, Coping, Mental Illness, Learning, Disorder, Diagnosis, Therapy, Relationships, Mental Illness, Stress, Acceptance](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/11/CBD6525C-DBAA-4757-8691-5999D4C05D2A-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“In Between” is an animated short film by a group of students from the French Gobelins School of Image. It depicts a young woman coming…
![Predictive Power of Speech](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/08/surreal-402830_640-470x140.jpg?x81652)
At one time or another, we may realize that something a friend or family member has said is ‘off’. Neuroscientist Mariano Sigman has taken this…
![Lover's Eye](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/06/Untitled-432x140.jpg?x81652)
Zaneta Pernicova painted this piece after her husband was diagnosed with a brain cyst that altered his mental and emotional state. Pernicova also noticed changes…
![A Blood Test to Diagnose Depression?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/05/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern believe it may be possible to diagnose depression using a blood test. According to Eva Redei,…
![A Contrast to Medical Psychiatry: The ‘Hearing Voices’ Movement](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/03/pavan_voicehearer_feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The 1961 classic, The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz, revolutionized the way we think about atypical mental phenomena. And over the years, the…