Lived Experiences of Mental Illness Through Photography

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Mental illness experiences shared visually.

Vivarin Medication

Vivarin medication –stay awake medicine.  It took me a long time for me to start taking meds. Because everyone kept telling me since I was

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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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Another Trail

This is after I went up the hill and looked at another trail. Once you get up that first hill, then you get there, and

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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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Side Effects

This photo shows how much I lay around and have no energy and just really sleepy.  I think it is mainly a side effect and

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Bedtime Meds

These are all of my bedtime meds in smiley face.  I’m really happy that I found a combo that I can take and that I

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Fruit And Hygiene

Fruit and hygiene photos; Fresh fruit but I would eat something unhealthy because I did not feel I could do that work.  My hygiene was

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School Locker

This is my school locker that I keep all my books in…I’m taking 18 credits now so I have a lot of books in there.

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Bookshelf

Picture of my bookshelf of college books and there are some other ones because I was studying English Literature. I went from a straight A

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