The ability to make a choice about her body was a powerful experience, Baden says. "With chronic illness, you don't get to choose. A lot of your life is just handed to you and you have to absorb and deal. So the ability to choose the design and location was so freeing for me. I...
Semicolon Tattoos Signify New Start, Inspire Hope in Others with Mental IllnessShe had yet to turn 30, but the trauma of her childhood wasslowly killing Naarah Pyscher.Her...Munz, Michele
Even though such a preventable cause of death should be fought against, we remain silent on the problem. Issues like STDs and even homicide are commonplace on television. For whatever reason, mental health topics seem to bring out the pitchforks for the whistleblower on such problems. An invisi...
In 2013, Amy Bleuel got her semicolon tattoo. The woman has lost her father to suicide. At the same time, she was also struggling against depression and mental illness. Depression is a very tough illness to live with, especially after the loss of a loved one. For Bleuel, the tattoo was...
Another common practice was tattooing for health wherein the tattooing of a god was placed on the afflicted person, to fight the illness for them. An offshoot of tattooing for health is tattooing to preserve youth. Maori girls tattooed their lips and chin, for this reason. When an old Ainu...
The semicolon tattoo, for those that proudly and permanently have it on their bodies, will forever function as a reminder of their survival and conquer suicide and mental disease or their remembrance of somebody who didn’t win the fight. ...
It is one thing to lose someone close to suicide due to a mental illness. It’s a whole other thing when you’re suffering from depression yourself. And yet Amy decided not to let that be the end for her. She could have chosen to end everything there and then, but decided instead ...
This isn’t the admission of vulnerability that one would expect from the self-proclaimed “Antichrist Superstar,” who once boasted about shoving sewing needles underneath his fingernails for personal amusement. But last night, the hard-rock subversive and close friend Johnny Depp got mat...
Hannah Roggenkamp[1]Mental Illness ResearchAndrew NichollsJoseph M Pierre[2]VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System世界精神病学杂志