A Kind of Bliss: Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman
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...moreShira Erlichman discusses her debut poetry collection, ODES TO LITHIUM.
...moreEsmé Weijun Wang discusses her debut essay collection, THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS.
...moreMilitello chooses cadence over chronology to show how moments flow into each other and through us.
...moreI want a PhD in how to want, effortlessly, to be alive.
...moreGreer Macallister discusses her new novel, WOMAN 99.
...moreThat’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
...moreGorilla and the Bird is an important resource for anyone impacted by the scope of bipolar disorder, as well as those who want to learn more about it.
...moreShame is a treble hook that tells me that 1) I not only fail but am a failure, that 2) I not only damage people but I am damaged, and that 3) I not only lie but I am a lie.
...moreMaybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
...moreOver at Electric Literature, Joseph Rositano contemplates the relationship between writing and mental health. Though he admits that creative writing has been associated with “mental abnormality” for centuries (the number of writers who committed suicide isn’t small), it’s still difficult to explain why this particular discipline—as opposed to painting or science, which also have the “‘tortured genius’ […]
...moreAt best, I see her not as my oldest friend, but as the protagonist in a movie, lost and beautiful and unstable, a character I sympathize with even as she self destructs.
...moreAfter taking medications and following a treatment plan, the hospitalizations had gradually replaced family vacations, and I only seemed to be getting worse. “Is it possible you’re wrong about me?” I asked. “Is it possible this whole thing is a mistake”?
...moreThe assumption is that people with mental illnesses are voiceless, can’t speak for themselves in a way that is reliable, in a way that other people want to hear or be led by. People want to hear stories of mental illness, but they don’t want to hear it from the people on the frontlines, the ones being devastated.
...moreA first novel by playwright Jillian Weise tackles the moral and ethical questions surrounding both medical research and human relationships.
...moreKaye Gibbons, author of the 1987 debut best-seller Ellen Foster and several subsequent novels, is the subject of an Associated Press profile published in several newspapers and Sunday book sections over the weekend. The article traces her downfall from “vivacious” best-selling author to her 2008 arrest for forging hydrocodone prescriptions to her disappearance into mental […]
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