Tag: mental health
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Anniversaries and Conversations We Need
Content Advisory! This is about suicide. We get into the thick of it for this one. November 11th of 2019. There was a snowstorm. Bad one. Airports were shut down in Chicago. Flights cancelled. I lay on my bedroom floor that day waiting to die. Next to me was an empty bottle of pills and…
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Election Stress & How To Not Become a Monster
Tomorrow is election day in the United States. 69% of our audience is in the US. A cursory glance at the news and social media will show that Americans are under a lot of stress and experiencing a lot of anxiety right now. The feelings are valid, there’s a lot at stake. In some ways…
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Winona Ryder Breaking Silence in a Tough World
As many fans wait for the 5th and final season of Stranger Things, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is smashing the box office. Winona Ryder is back in the spotlight, but she has never been silent. She impacted Generation X with important lessons about metal health and early adulthood with movies like Girl Interrupted and Reality Bites. This…
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Jenny’s Feedback and Graceful Truth
Can well intentioned people show ableist behavior? Is it possible to give hard truth gracefully? Do we get better with age? Can we change an ending? According to a former model named Jenny, the answer is yes. Jenny is a Fem Friday we have written about twice. The first one was our Brooke Shields piece…
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Gen X Music Was The Best Music For Gen X
Was the music of our generation the best? Does today’s music just not connect as well? Kind of. There’s a lot to unpack. When I was a teenager I got to constantly hear Boomers and the Silent Generation tell me that my music was simply noise. Unless that Boomer was Tipper Gore or a Minister,…
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Benny and Joon is the Neurodivergent Love Story We Need
Is mental health, illiteracy and neurodivergence stigmatized? Is Hollywood often contributory to the problem? Was a forgotten film in 1993 ahead of its time? Should you revisit a forgotten classic? If we are talking about Benny and Joon? Yes! Who’s in it and what’s it about? If you were to look up a synopsis of…
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Dolores O’Riordan and the Need to Survive
Raise a glass to former lead singer of The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan this St Patrick’s Day! In the article is an award winning photograph I did with a model shortly after Dolores’ passing and remains one of my best selling pieces at art shows I present at. It was a labor of love and honor…
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World Start Turning on My Depression
Could the same man who gave us Jessie’s Girl and Doctor Noah Drake make a difference? Is depression an affair of the heart? And have I sometimes been Walking on the Edge of a Suicide Manifesto like a Working Class Dog? Yes. An Unlikely Hero If you do not know who Rick Springfield is, here…
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I read this article yesterday morning before work and it really struck me. Like, to tears… I hate to say…