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.

Alarm Clock

A picture of my alarm clock on my bed—One of the important things with me with my bipolar is just my sleep…Sleep is one of

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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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Endless Crying

This is water dripping from the faucet. The endless crying. The crying comes with being depressed and everything. Not sure if it was the increase

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Running Medals

These are my running medals. Something that I’m most proud of from a couple of years of running. Running can make you feel so much

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Dreams

An unfortunate side effect of my medication I know I have are dreams. I never had dreams before. Never in my childhood. I don’t like

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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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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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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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