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Ephemera: A Memoir

Mar. 16, 2023 by Guest

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by Tenli Yavneh   In Briana Loewinsohn’s graphic memoir Ephemera, we are drawn into the emotional world of a woman searching backward in time for memories of her mother, who died when the author was a child. The mother was mostly absent during Loewinsohn’s childhood due to mental health issues, eventually dying of a related cause, probably suicide, though the author does not state that explicitly. Loewinsohn was quite young when the events of the book took place, and her adult desire to make sense of her memories is portrayed in bookended sections around the core of her childhood story,… Read More

Tags: death of a parent, depression, grief, memory, mental illness, suicide

Happiness Will Follow

Jan. 29, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: abuse, death curse, family dysfunction, Memoir, mental illness, single parenthood, trauma

Cuckoo – One Woman’s True Stories of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder

Jan. 29, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, multiple personality disorder, trauma

Side Effects

Jan. 22, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: anxiety, depression, medication, mental illness, side effects, therapy

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron

Jan. 19, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: mental illness, Pandemic, Smallpox, survival

Look Straight Ahead

Jan. 19, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: bullying, mental health, mental illness, school pressures

Everything Is Going Wrong: Comics on Punk & Mental Illness

Jan. 19, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: anthology, drugs, mental illness

Couch Tag

Jan. 3, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: death, drug abuse, Memoir, mental health, mental illness, sex

States of Mind

Jan. 3, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: bipolar disorder, Memoir, mental health, mental illness

LOVF: The Illustrated Diary of a Man Literally Losing His Mind

Jan. 2, 2023 by Guest

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Tags: bipolar disorder, chronic pain, Memoir, mental health, mental illness, PTSD

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