Lived Experiences of Mental Illness Through Photography

normalizing, De-stigmatizing and humanizing Mental Health issues through photography and shared Lived experiences.

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Mental illness experiences shared visually.

Theory Homework

What is seen here is my theory homework. Math of music course. More academic courses for my major. The poem I took a picture of

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Scissors

“In this photo the eye sees a basic pair of scissors. The unseen story is that these scissors are a constant reminder of how I

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The Goonies

My nephew, oldest nephew loves to draw his siblings and I all the time when they come. Goonies was my favorite movie I watched as

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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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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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The Tree

This tree was planted before I was born so we are basically the same age. All winter it is really barren and then in the

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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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Derailed

With depression your life gets derailed.  That is what I was thinking of and also another meaning is that a friend of mine is a

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Yearbooks

These are my yearbooks spread out from kindergarten to my senior year in high school. It’s life moments of when I was bullied throughout middle

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My Degrees

What I’m most proud of is my Degrees. My health may be disintegrating around me but my education can never be taken away from me.

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