Lived Experiences of Mental Illness Through Photography

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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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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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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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Time wasted.

Although I love artwork of all kinds this is a representation of hours wasted. Stuck in my head home alone with nothing more than my

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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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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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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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