Music and Mental Health: Guess Who (IV)
Addiction is a difficult aspect of mental health, for those who are addicts and also for those who care about them. It may be even more difficult when the substance one is addicted to is socially acceptable: here is where we find alcohol. Many brilliant people may...Music and Mental Health: Guess Who (III)
Depression and anxiety: two of the most experienced mental health issues reported today. Ever since I was young, I personally have struggled with feelings of inadequacy and quite simply not feeling wanted. For the majority of my childhood, I had the on-and-off belief...Mental Illness, and Writing: It’s Not Just for Tragic Poets Anymore…
Ummm…. What do you mean it’s not just for tragic poets anymore? What about the greats though: Sylvia Plath, Hart Crane, Reinaldo Arenas? In other words, writing can be that cathartic release that we might yearn for when we simply can’t or don’t want to say it aloud. I...