Tag: anxiety
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Six years and counting
Libanos ReddaSeattle, Washington, United States For the past six years, I have not been myself. Then again, the memory of my former self has grown a bit foggy over the years. Perhaps things were always this bad. Perhaps I have not changed much at all. Around six years ago, at the age of seventeen, my…
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Mood and anxiety disorders or a return to “neurosis”?
Brian SharplessPullman, Washington, United States Since the publication of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)1, explicit recognition of the overlap between anxiety and depression markedly declined. However, a long historical tradition tracing its roots back to the ancient world (i.e. Greeks and Romans) viewed these two phenomena as…
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Possessions
Margaret Irene BaczewskiTucson, Arizona, USA People with mental illness are widely misunderstood by others. For my senior thesis project at the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design, I created a series of four wearable objects that served as cathartic aids to different psychological disorders. For every piece, I did extensive research on the…