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.

A Blur

A blur–but the last 2 years since I’ve had this major decline with my depression that everything has just become a huge blur.  My memory

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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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Bookshelf

Picture of my bookshelf of college books and there are some other ones because I was studying English Literature. I went from a straight A

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Meds In A Day

Picture of all the meds I take in a day. It makes me realize how many meds I’m taking every day and wondering how this

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Pile Of Mail

Pile of my mail: All of the health care bills piling up. It is really expensive to have a mental illness, it costs a lot

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More then a degree

Nursing school exacerbated my mental health problems. Through lots of close friends, I have found out there is much more to life and school than

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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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