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

This is my freshman dorm. This was where my depression and anxiety got really bad and where I definitely had a lot of low episodes.

Cross stitch. I have not told my mom about my mental illness and that is really hard. However, she is not really into that because

Saw this house and just thought oh, how depressing.  House peeling, grass not mowed, shingles falling off.  Screamed depression to me.  I couldn’t imagine living

This picture has some of my makeup lined up. I wanted this image to represent how more days recently than before I actually felt like

The photos on these billboards when I first saw them just kind of meant a lot to me, I could relate. They are about depression

This is a photo of the home I grew up in. It’s a picture of the outside of the house but it’s the place where

This is an empty classroom, I just dumped all my books in there–cause I had to leave school for a semester. It was a big

Cat laying on a bed. It is something that that the medication sometimes can fix, you know you feel like… well you know cats sleep

Depression makes me wish it was my name on the grave marker and not my best friend.  [He died of] Leukemia. Quite a few times