Les Zig

That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. 1989 It’s an explosion in my head that shocks me from a restful sleep, a conflagration that engulfs me in anxiety so that I can’t see a way out. I sit up in bed. My brother sleeps obliviously in his own bed opposite me. But I might as well be alone. It’s just me. The night. And this terror. Something’s broken. That’s all I know. Like my right arm, which I broke nearly three years earlier while playing a social game of football. I jumped, was flipped in…