A Cigarette. I guess smoking can be a crutch to deal with anxiety that has probably been one of my things. Where maybe medication could

My planner and medications. This is the first time I’ve gone on any medication to treat my mental illness. It took a long time to

This is the view from my room. I spend a lot of my time looking out this window. One of my favorite things to do

A wheel with spokes–it is off a wheelchair but that is not really relevant. I remembered when I was in the partial hospitalization program we

These are my running medals. Something that I’m most proud of from a couple of years of running. Running can make you feel so much

This is an apple with a knife stuck into it. Mostly this represents my kids, if they say nasty things, it feels like they have

You normally see empty beer cans in the shower but I recreated it with full beer cans.  As a graduate student in a really intensive

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

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

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