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 Sleepy Bed

Picture of my bed. I slept constantly. If I wasn’t sleeping I would try to go to sleep.  I know that the anxiety and stomachache

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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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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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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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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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The Hill

This is a photo of me looking up at a hill. I wanted this to represent me waking up every day and looking at all

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Cute Little Mug

This is a cute little mug that my roommate got me when she was in Ireland over spring break. We haven’t known each other very

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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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