Tag: mental health
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“This was it, the definitive moment I’d been waiting for. I had a concrete reason to leave.”
Emily Gould in The Cut about the crisis in her marriage and mental health.
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Ani Castillo Fan Post
The Nicky Case thing made me think of another artist whose work found me at the right time: Ani Castillo. Several of my loved ones struggle with mental health issues, and at a particularly challenging time in 2016, I came across a showcase of her work, and now there are three of them in my…
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Nicky Case makes interesting shtuff
There has been a lot of discussion about how the internet sucks these days, but this is what we need more of. There’s a lot there and I only scratched the surface. Case is a very good writer and creator. The thing I saw first was this very sweet little one-minute game, but what made…
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
It’s rare to find a book about mental illness that doesn’t have an angle or an agenda. Aviv is fascinated by the stories of the people she profiles, and by the backgrounds and differences in their (and her) cases, and comes at them with empathy, understanding and some really great writing. It took a while…