Mania and Thinking
2006 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. As I walk the street trying to burn away my nervous energy, the thoughts that whiz through my head explode like a range of fireworks fleetingly highlighting questions around my self-worth. Why aren’t I where I should be in life? Why has the past been so unfulfilled? Is this all I am? Is this all I’ll ever be? What more is there? There are more but I don’t want to see them. Just these are enough, and they invite scathing condemnations of who I am. Others mightn’t…
The Ticking Bomb
1975 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. There’s a bomb in the house. I lie in bed, trying to sleep, but I can’t because of the bomb. I know it’s on a countdown. I’m not sure how long that countdown is. I can’t even tell time yet. But I’ve seen enough movies already to know that bombs have timers that tick down until they explode. Nobody else is awake in the house – at least I don’t think so. I can hear the washing machine going, can hear the rhythm of its cycle, but…