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Introducing... Mental Health is Cool

Realizing a dream I first had 16 years ago in the psychiatric ward

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Kate Speer
Dec 01, 2023
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Photos of an old college notebook -- where I first dreamt up MENTAL HEALTH IS COOL

It all started in the psych ward. Psychotic, hypomanic, and raging against a world that never seemed to love me back, I began to scribble in one of my college notebooks.

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What if the world could tell me who was safe and who wasn’t?

What if — amidst my mind on fire and imaginary demons — there was a symbol for who I can trust with my truth?

What if — whe…

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