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.

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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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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Fruit And Hygiene

Fruit and hygiene photos; Fresh fruit but I would eat something unhealthy because I did not feel I could do that work.  My hygiene was

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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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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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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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Babbling Brook

The unseen story is the new start to my life. This campus is where I reinvented and began to love myself finally. Fargo is home

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