A sentence like a punch.From Sheryl Lunas “Neighbors Smoke on an Apartment Porch Owned by a Mental Health Agency” Poetry Magazine, January 2018
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clementinevonradics: Patron Saint of Manic Depressives, Clementine von Radics Thank the stars for this miracle.For the way we work our broken fingers through the dirttill we convince the good to grow there. New poem up on Write About Now Clementine von Radics new poem touches on the messy complexity of art and mental illness (like …
Every breath is labored. You are dying. You are going to die. It’s terrifying. And then when the attack is over, the depression is still there. Once, my stepdad asked me, ‘What does it feel like?’ And I said, ‘It feels like I’m desperately homesick, but I’m home.’ Sarah Silverman On What Panic Attacks Feel …
BuzzFeed Plagiarized A Woman’s Short Film About Her Experience With Mental Illness
xopachi: noshameinoursickness: I originally tried to get an article about what happened published but no one would help me to share my story so here’s what happened:As many of you know, I’m a filmmaker and undergraduate film student and like any other nineteen-year-old Internet user, I loved BuzzFeed Video. Note the past tense. I used to …
malkatz: i hate when people vilify psychiatric pills as ‘mind-altering drugs’ like yes that’s exactly what they are they are for mental illness mental if i had a kidney-related illness, i would hope to have kidney-altering drugs on the market
This tendency was exemplified in the President’s speech, when he stated: ”We all know somebody — a family member, a friend, a neighbor — who has struggled or will struggle with mental health issues at some point in their lives.” Note the construction of the sentence: “We all know somebody – a family member, a …
People associate mental disorder with violence. We found that crime and mental disorder are linked, but not in the way people think: Persons with severe mental disorders are terribly vulnerable to victimization. Linda Teplin, discussing her research paper ‘Crime victimization in adults with severe mental illness’ (This paper is under paid access, but free articles …
There are several obvious problems with this, starting with the fact that the phrase “mental illness” encompasses innumerable types of conditions that are as similar to each other as Taylor Swift and Morgan Freeman. The fact that people treat the term “mental health” as though it is one giant indivisible blob of entity is problematic …
The more I watched, the more confused I became. What the hell was this all about? I wondered. What could it possibly mean? Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood. 218 Toru, the narrator, returns to the ‘real’ world after spending a few days in a unique sanatorium visiting a friend.
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