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…
One of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces, “The Potato Eaters” serves as a gritty snapshot of a peasant family struggling to survive in the Netherlands during…
Christa Marie’s poem “Broken Stairs” tells the story of a young girl’s fight with depression. The poem speaks of “monsters in her mind” which can be interpreted as representing her mental illness, her thoughts, and the lies…
Melissa Walker is a creative art therapist who uses mask-making to help active service members recover from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic…
“Anti-D” by The Wombats is a song about the struggles of lead singer Matthew Murphy the weeks after he stopped taking anti-depressants. Murphy suffered from anxiety…
Kim Noble is an artist living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Once called Multiple Personality Disorder, DID is a mental illness in which an individual’s identity…
“Please Hear What I’m Not Saying” is a poem by American poet Charles C. Finn that has been used to help raise awareness for mental health issues. Finn’s poem…
The disturbing details beautifully rendered in the final painting of William Hogarth‘s eight-painting project A Rake’s Progress (1735) continues to draw attention to the scandalous…
“Uninvited Guest” is a short poem by Vicky from Family Friend Poems that captures the depths of depression and the helplessness one may feel when…
After twenty-eight years of being “dragged through the system,” Emily Swiatek was finally diagnosed with Asperger’s, a branch of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). For Emily,…
