#Mental - Stories
November 2020
 Georgia Tbilisi There are moments and unfortunately such moments occur quite often when you do not want to leave the room, do not want to leave the house, you do not want to get up in the morning or do not want to get up at all. You do not even know what you want, you have lost the appetite, you cannot enjoy f... |
 United States of America St. Charles Women are rarely one thing or another. They cannot be categorized or labeled. A woman can be anything and everything at any given time. Within are the secrets that they keep. The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars. We never reveal, eve... |
 United Kingdom London My work is often drawn from experiences in my own life. I define my personality as hypersensitive, meaning I am often on high alert with my surroundings. This is both a blessing as well as a disadvantage. Whilst I tend to notice the beauty in the mundane, my mind can very quickly become ov... |
 Canada Mississauga I suffer with bipolar disorder and I always have to put on a mask but it sits behind my just haunting me? I try to find light in the holes that are dug by myself.
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 United Kingdom Droitwich/Worcester Having been diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of six, I’ve struggled on and off with body image issues and depression. This includes a distorted perspective on life, a sense of my identity being overwhelmed by my disability, a tendency towards bleakness and not trusting anything that appea... |
 United Kingdom Norwich Michael Morgan ‘Grassroots’
The phrase “living for the weekend” is a term that almost all of us can relate to, whether it’s partying with friends, spending time with loved ones or for many of those who participate in Amateur sports. The world of Sunday league football to some of us may... |
 Russian Federation Vologda Two years ago I was struck by the story, told by my mother-in-law. Her pretty young neighbour gave birth to a nice healthy child. She arrived home from maternity center looking quite happy, put the baby into his crib, took a rope and hang herself on a chandelier. That is how I faced the post-pa... |
 Italy Genova Panic attack. Analogic photography. Double exposure. Kiev 88. Ilford HP5 400
This photographic series is about a personal problem of mine on anxiety problems and panic attacks that I have been carrying on for many years now. Thanks to photography I was able to explain the various phases that I li... |
 Pakistan Karachi ‘She’ was forced to perform every day like a clown who is forced to smile besides her devastated circumstances. ‘They’ told her its fine now ‘You’ can smile. ‘She’ was hiding all the darkness beneath those smiles and pretty faces. No one listened and no one understood, so ‘she’ talked to ‘me’ .
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 Argentina Villa Cabana In 2014 I suffered a traffic accident. The rehabilitation process took 4 years. The great abatares was to overcome anxiety, panic and depression. I decided to draw my brain because it is the enigmatic organ where bodily control, thoughts, memory, and emotions all converge. Amen to countering impatie... |
