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Ashamed over my mental illness, I realized drawing might help me – and others – cope

  • Written by William Doan, Professor of Theatre, Pennsylvania State University
Ashamed over my mental illness, I realized drawing might help me – and others – cope'Crazy Brain.'William Doan, CC BY-ND

I’ve lived much of my life with anxiety and depression, including the negative feelings – shame and self-doubt – that seduced me into believing the stigma around mental illness: that people knew I wasn’t good enough; that they would avoid me because I was different or unstable; and that I...

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