The generational legacy of a psychiatric diagnosis Photo by Cosmin Gurau  on Unsplash Beyond the Label: The first time my aunt tried to end her life was on the day before I was born. When my father told me this a few months ago, it was like coming home to a lost part of myself, as if the context surrounding my birth suddenly explained the loss I had felt from my first moments in the world. Six years later, when she finally succeeded, her death sent shock waves through my fami

Photo by Shawn Rain  on Unsplash The motive is to dissolve— to find in the folds of creeping linen or by spreading out as airborne dust  some refuge from the black mass born of this insurrection towards innocence which unstitches him from his shadow creating a point of inflection where  he loses sight of life as he dances over walls flickering like effervescent candlelight to slip from the slumbered grip  of a tyrant acting out his broken machinations so that the curtained ro