Lived Experiences of Mental Illness Through Photography

normalizing, De-stigmatizing and humanizing Mental Health issues through photography and shared Lived experiences.

Share This Site

Browse SNAP stories

Mental illness experiences shared visually.

Endless Crying

This is water dripping from the faucet. The endless crying. The crying comes with being depressed and everything. Not sure if it was the increase

Read More »

Door And Windows

Door and windows with light through and plastic through them. [When I was depressed] I didn’t want the lights coming through, I didn’t want anyone

Read More »

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

Read More »

Dog Poop

Big pile of dog poop. This picture is a representation of my life right now.  Feel like I have no way of getting out of

Read More »

Just Stop

It is just one of the ways that they teach you to stop ruminating or stop doing what you are doing and to do something

Read More »

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

Read More »

Decorated Fridge

This is my fridge with photos on the outside. On the inside I barely have any food because it is depressing the food restrictions of

Read More »

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

Read More »

The Tree

This tree was planted before I was born so we are basically the same age. All winter it is really barren and then in the

Read More »

Horseshoe

This is a horseshoe frame with a picture of the horse I road at summer camp when I Was younger. One of my favorites. The

Read More »