Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: anxiety

  • Six years and counting

    Libanos Redda Seattle, Washington, United States   The unnerving level of vigilance that anxiety patients maintain 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…

  • Mood and anxiety disorders or a return to “neurosis”?

    Brian Sharpless Pullman, Washington, United States   “7. Struggle! Struggle! Struggle!” Photo by Billy Wilson on Flickr. CC BY-NC 2.0. 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…

  • Possessions

    Margaret Irene Baczewski Tucson, 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…