Mental Health

Posted on April 15, 2019 April 14, 2019

Inside The Christian Academy With A History Of Alleged Abuse

At a therapeutic farm in Georgia, troubled teens are possessed by demons, depressed because of technology—and allegedly mistreated by their caretakers. Read more

Posted on March 26, 2019 March 26, 2019

Coming Together, And Falling Apart, In New Orleans

New Orleans hadn’t changed; it was the same city it had been before my breakdown. It was I who had changed, perhaps unalterably. Read more

Posted on January 7, 2019 December 14, 2018

Meet The Artist Photographing Walls Scribbled With Mental Anguish In India

This the story of Deepa Saxena, a former teacher who, for the past ten years, has been inscribing her words on the walls of Meerut; a small town in Northern India. Read more

Posted on December 12, 2018 December 10, 2018

What Happens Next: When The Specters Of Mental And Physical Illness Collide

Now I believe that everything will somehow be okay, that the world will carry me along instead of passing me by. Read more

Posted on November 3, 2018 November 1, 2018

What Happens When Self-Harm Becomes Invisible?

I did not cut myself, but was it fair to say I had not hurt myself? Without the physical marks, no one was aware anything was amiss. My self-harm had not gone away. It had become invisible. Read more

Posted on October 12, 2018 October 12, 2018

I’m Still Here After 20 Years Of Suicidal Thoughts: How Did That Happen?

I tried to throw myself in front of a train on my 30th birthday. I spent an hour, two—time was gauzy—trying to get myself airborne. But a chain kept pulling me up short, the kind that allows backyard dogs just so close to the fence. At the time I thought it was God. Read more

Posted on April 23, 2018 October 9, 2018