Fighting Off Her Demons

Art can be one's way of purging negative emotions Kitkat Barreiro explores, expresses and copes with her own emotions through her illustrations She says of this:

Mom, this is how my brain works

Dear Mom, wish it were easy to explain to you how my mind works When I come home from school every weekend, worn out like an old sweater, your hugs stitch me back together, on

Have A Look Inside

Have a look at Darlene Turla's gripping photographs that depict a tumultuous inner world The artist herself provides a short write-up per photo Onion-skinned (2017) Anxiety has

Litany

y neighbors have a white guard dog tied outside their house She never goes inside Drizzle, storm, heat, the dog stands dutifully outside its master’s house to warn them of intrud

Journal Entries

If there’s anything that I have been wrong about, it would be thinking that journaling isn’t important, and I’ll tell you why, but before I get to that I’ll

“Mess,” a short film

Mess is a film that encourages sufferers of mental health problems to seek help

Stop telling me I’m brave for sharing my story.

When my chapbook Nowhere came out, people told me they loved my writing They loved my honesty, my raw emotion I brought relatives and friends alike to tears And I felt guilty for i

Misery Business

Dear Friend, How are you How are things going Remember how you’d always say I was into weird shit I’ve been into this rap group calledthe Sad Boys, including producers Yu

The Waiting War

Pre-grad Agenda: Don’t Kill Yourself During my last semester in college, I couldn’t wait for graduation to come I found myself depressed and suicidal during a time when ever