Depression, Mental
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Deterioration and Dejection: Cycles of Despair While Surviving a Cataclysmic Event, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_leonard_kyle.pdf
Overview
"This film is a short personal essay about my struggle with facing a dual diagnosis of Treatment Resistant Depression and a relapse in addiction to opiates while living through my greatest fear: a global pandemic. My opiate addiction had receded to a point of no longer being an issue in my day to day life. However, when the deaths of several close friends of mine coincided with the start of the covid-19 pandemic, I relapsed and started using again. Through voiceover, old family footage, and...
Dates:
2022
Hide and Seek, 2021
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Identifier: vm_2021fall_yung_miranda.pdf
Overview
"'Hide and Seek' (2021) is a visual mixtape illustrating the author's personal experiences with existential depression and anxiety through a surreal, artful lens. Expansive and profound, the film utilizes this narrative to unravel and investigate the nature of humanity's withered connection to love, purpose and spiritual grounding. Combining truth, dance, music, and metaphoric imagery to craft a unique and personable audio-visual experience, 'Hide and Seek' aims to break past the barriers of...
Dates:
2021
Smart Girls, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_davis_kirby.pdf
Overview
"With my essay collection "Smart Girls," I aimed to explore issues that I have personally encountered in my life that I've noticed are not in any way unique to me. I wanted to write openly about what it's like to deal with clinical depression, the loss of a loved one, religious conflict in families, and simply exist as a young woman in the twenty-first century. It was my goal when writing these essays to provide insight especially into navigating one's early- to mid-twenties while suffering...
Dates:
2023
Surrender, 2007
Item — Multiple Containers
Overview
This project presents an eight minute autobiographical audio/video montage of my personal struggle with depression, anxiety and the battle between self medicating, self mutilating, western medicine and spirituality to treat it. The story is told through a
Dates:
2007
The boots, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_noto_joseph.pdf
Overview
"This collection of poems focuses on letter poems to a variety of people in my life. In between these letter poems there are a different blend of poems that offer a glimpse into the life of the writer. This work offers a well-balanced mix of emotional urgency and interior monologue. Often, my work involves details of what it is like living with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and this work is no different. The poems that are not letter poems often offer an inside view of the...
Dates:
2023
Tongue-tied : essays of a self-conscious journey, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_wells_ashley.pdf
Overview
"Tongue-Tied is a collection of seven linked essays that explore the writer's experiences with generalized anxiety disorder and major depression." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Two girls, one illness, 2000
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2000