Category: Depression
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Neural-Lithic Harvests: Hannah Newman at the Intersection of Technology and Nature
Image courtesy of PCC GalleriesNeural-Lithic Harvests: Hannah Newman at the Intersection of Technology and NatureBy Alayna Duke – 12/10/2025Portland, Oregon – In a tiny room on the second floor of the Multnomah County Library, Hannah Newman sits across from me, wearing a bright sweater that seems to match her energy. She speaks with animated gestures…
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Eleven
Years prior to becoming a mother I was attempting to hold onto my youth. In this inevitable process of growing out of Barbies dolls, Matchbox cars and discovering music and makeup. Eleven is a lost age really, nothing to set it apart. A moment in the overall assemblage of other life moments. You’re reaching for…
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Failed Resolution
The reflection in the bathroom mirror before me was unrecognizable, desperation had finally come. Without any rational thought the now empty aspirin bottle was still in my grasp. My grandparents sat unaware in the adjacent living room. I should have been looking forward to summer, the end of school…something. No reasoning was available to explain…
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Happy Things
So, I am not always depressed. I do always have depression though. However, it is an unfortunate and painful facet of my overall personality, but it isn’t who I am. Very few people, especially friends know that I have suffered from depression and even less know about my attempted suicide, stint in the rehabilitation facility,…
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Suicidal Tendencies
Depression can be difficult to recognize when it is slowly establishing itself as the dominant functioning constitution of your psyche. It is even harder to combat when your own assessment of what might be the genesis of the pain is your belief that it is predominantly evolving out of your own weaknesses. Just after a…
