Depression and Stigma :: Doing Something About It

Thanks, Joey.

From Joey's site, No Kidding, Me Too:

No Kidding, Me Too! is a nonprofit organization comprised of entertainment industry members united in an effort to educate Americans about the epidemic related to brain dis-ease in all forms. Through this enlightenment we will teach those suffering from it, and their loved ones who are victims of it, to talk about it openly. The goal is to tear this stigma out of the closet so these people will be surprised to find millions of others like themselves and say, "No Kidding, Me Too!"

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Media Ripple :: Robert Croma

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Robert made this for me.

Why he made it is our secret, okay?

People begin to respond in media.

I weep with happiness.

This is the kind of conversation I dream of having with survivors and those who support them on their journeys.

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The Faux Press :: Work Hard

.:. Survivor .:.

I always need reminders.

How about you?

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

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Painting as Meditation :: Self-Portraits

"Self-portrait with Scanner", digital image, 2000

This is not a painting, but a self-portrait with hand-held scanner. As usual, was just playing around with a newly-discovered tool, but in making this self-portrait there came a moment when I understood it to be an important part of the healing process.

The underlying question to answer is this: how do you see yourself?

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Learned the import of that question from sculptor Petah Coyne.

My then-shrink had asked me what I looked like inside. I'd no answer.

Shortly thereafter I had occasion to see a collection of Ms. Coyne's work at the Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach. Her sculptures of tar, razor wire and straw represented precisely my image of self.

Needless to say, it came as a kind of revelation that I thought of myself in that dark way.

No way to change something you're not conscious of.

Consciousness of self-image is an early step toward changing it.

How do YOU see yourself?

Thanks, Petah.

[Petah Coyne BIO]
[Coyne Exhibit]

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