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.

Scale Wars

Scale Wars: picture of our scale with my daily med box. Shows my weight gain as a side effect. The Zyprexa, I gained 70 pounds,

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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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Crosses

These crosses are very special to me, they represent my journey and have been given to me by my family, friends and church.  I look

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Pill Box

Pill box ; All [of these meds] were taken except the night meds. If I don’t take them on time then I will wake up

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Pharmacy

This picture shows the pharmacy building. It represents how much pharmacy has consumed me. I really wanted to get into the program and there were

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Running Shoes

My running shoes. Symbolizes what needs to change, but exercise, running, walking, just exercise makes you feel so much better. It can be a good

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Dad?

A picture of the flag that was draped over my father’s casket when he was buried at the age of 21. A heroin user who

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My Coworker

Person I work with at night. She has dealt with a lot of the issues like I have. She was just somebody that takes medicines

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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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