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Lived Experiences of Mental Illness Through Photography

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Mental illness experiences shared visually.

Makeup

This picture has some of my makeup lined up. I wanted this image to represent how more days recently than before I actually felt like

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The Hill

This is a photo of me looking up at a hill. I wanted this to represent me waking up every day and looking at all

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NDSU Bison

It stands for NDSU and that for me personally, it is my long journey through everything in the last year. It reflects that I got

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A Wheel With Spokes

A wheel with spokes–it is off a wheelchair but that is not really relevant. I remembered when I was in the partial hospitalization program we

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My Dog

This is my dog. She is really the one thing that has brought out the happiness within me. I see happiness in the picture of

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The Dam

Before the dam it is as smooth as glass and then all of a sudden it turns into the white water rapids. It tends to

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Dream J

Above my desk and my CCT computer is there and my Dream J that my mom gave me. I often stare at when I’m depressed

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Grave Marker

Depression makes me wish it was my name on the grave marker and not my best friend.  [He died of] Leukemia. Quite a few times

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