![Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Mood Disorder, Mental health, mental health advocate, advocacy, duality, Manic, writer, painting, image, mania, depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/10/94E5751F-57F8-4538-A2F5-30631C9A3D49-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Rae Morgan, a mental health advocate, writer and storyteller, created these pieces while she was hospitalized in an outpatient program with bipolar disorder. She says…
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“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,…
![bipolar, mania, depression, hallucination, denial, stardom, public, stigma, music, alienation](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/11/53EB3F25-E594-41BB-8F63-59A86C327FCD-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The song ‘Gasoline’ by Halsey from her debut album Badlands describes what it is like to live with bipolar disorder, a condition the singer herself…
![Asthma Brings Surprising Challenges, Mental Health Difficulties](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/06/diving-455765_1920-470x140.jpg?x81652)
During the summer of 2017, Adrian and his partner, Kayla, ventured out to explore the dense forest in a remote area of south-eastern Canada where…
![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,…
![A Better Son/Daughter](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/07/Screenshot-2015-07-25-07.54.181-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“A Better Son/Daughter” by Rilo Kiley, is a song about the fluctuating emotional state of someone suffering from Bipolar Disorder – a disorder characterized by…
![Tulips](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/03/tulips-320x140.jpg?x81652)
By Sylvia Plath Tulips is among Plath’s poems that deal with her experience with depression. Plath committed suicide in 1963—she was 30 years old. …