The Absent Universe

Thor Harris, the drummer for Swans and Shearwater, manages his clinical depression through music, art, exercise and community.

"I saw clearly that not only does racism oppress people of colour on a systemic level, but that I, as a white person, benefit from that oppression, whether I want to or not. Interestingly, although I quickly recognized that: 1) I have certain unearned assets that others do not because I am white and middle-class and able-bodied and cisgender; and 2) that others have privileges I do not because they are men and/or heterosexual, I did not recognize for some time the fact that people who had never been labeled mentally ill—as I had been—and who were thus sane by default, had access to privileges that I did not. I was aware of the discrimination I had faced as a "mentally ill" person, but I accepted that oppression. I believed, at the time, that I was sick, and I believed that this sickness caused me to hurt myself and others. Should I not then, I reasoned, be restrained by the straightjacket of unequal treatment?"

David Webb completed the world's first PhD on suicide by someone who has attempted suicide. David is a board member of the World Network of Users and Survivo...

Emil Cioran

Part Two

"When you can’t rid yourself of the darkness you rid the darkness of you."

Lessons from the Mental Hospital: Glennon Doyle Melton at TEDxTraverseCity (*Trigger warning for discussion of self harm) Autism - How My Unstoppable Mother Proved the Experts Wrong