Writing by Viv Mah // Illustration by Ayelen Lujan // CW: depression, suicide.
I worry often that it it too easy for us to hide in these fortresses we’ve constructed otherwise, where everything hurts and nothing hurts at all. Or that we think we’re better off that way.
Writing by Quincy Malesovas // Illustration by Arielle Jennings // The detriments that ED-sufferers face when they are sitting alone in their room. Depression, loneliness, hair that falls out in clumps, a body that will never be good enough.
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Writing by Freya Madders // Illustration by Franz Lang // All the patients were people who I believed to be capable of better things and worthy of a better life. They, like everyone with this illness, don’t deserve to be suffering the way they are.
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Writing by Freya Madders // Illustration by Franz Lang // It was strange that I felt like such a failure and so terrible about myself after eating anything, yet the people who loved and cared for me would always tell me they were proud of me and that I showed courage and bravery for doing so.
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Writing by Freya Madders // Illustration by Franz Lang // I’d forgotten who I was apart from my eating disorder. I could no longer separate the two of us: ED and me.
Writing by Julie Young // Collage by Eugenia Loli // I know the battle can be different for everyone, but here are a few things I practice daily, every other day, or weekly, that give me a sense of confidence and stability.
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Writing by Marley Warren // Photograph by Julie Young //Anxiety, panic attacks, and other mental illnesses are not a sign of weakness. In fact, they are a sign that you’ve been trying to stay strong for too long.
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Writing and photograph by Lucy Hotchin // Borderline Personality Disorder is a cluster of “symptoms” which can manifest in very different ways, making treatment difficult and often times very specific to the person.
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Writing and artwork by Lucy Hotchin // Yesterday, there were a multitude of small things that made me smile and I decided to do a similar self-portrait. I took a photo of myself smiling and drawing the smile lines that appear on my face made me happy.
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Writing by Isa Denney Strother // Illustrations by Jordyn McGeachin // Stress is a strangling feeling for me. It’s a choking, gurgling, bleeding feeling. It’s a lost in a crowd and pained feeling.
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