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Normalizing, de-stigmatizing and humanizing Mental Illness through photography and shared lived experiences

We showcase anonymous individual’s experiences with mental health Through photography.

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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An Empty Gym

An empty gym. Two ways that this is interesting: in 1 way a lot of what you feel before you get the medication or treatment

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Scapular Medal

This is my Grandpa’s Scapular medal. Grandpa gave it to me when he was dying of cancer. These are what he kept when he was

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NDSU Bison

It stands for NDSU and that for me personally, it is my long journey through everything in the last year. It reflects that I got

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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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Scale Wars

Scale Wars: picture of our scale with my daily med box. Shows my weight gain as a side effect. The Zyprexa, I gained 70 pounds,

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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

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Home

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

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