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.

My House

My house. My husband has really been gone the last 6 years and I’ve had to do everything to get it ready to get on

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Fallen Tree

Fallen tree still living.  I have always liked this tree but when I was a kid, it fell over and uprooted and I like it

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Breaking Free

Picture kind of got cut off. This wheelchair represents my depression, anxiety, and my embarrassment. The image of what needs to change in my life.

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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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Unopened Mail

Unopened mail. What this reflects for me is exactly what I did, when I am falling into depression then I don’t do the things I

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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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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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