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Unspoken Voices
1989 A voice. I’m sure it’ll speak soon. Just penetrate the night to accost me. I lie in bed, this worry growing into an obsession. My anxiety has escalated. Clusters of panic attacks have ambushed me repeatedly. In the last session I had with my psychiatrist, he asked me if I’d heard voices. I told him no. Then, terrified, I asked him if I would. He said he didn’t know. So it’s a possibility. Of course it’s a possibility. If it wasn’t, he would’ve told me, No! You won’t hear my voices! He would’ve laughed and dismissed it. He would’ve assured me. But I saw the concern in his face…
The Inexorable Day
That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. 2000 Awake. A blissful moment of nothing. Then … A thick, soggy, oily mess sitting in my head,…
That First Panic Attack
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…