Elizabeth Marx
Bio
Intersectional Feminist. triple major. mentally ill. chronically ill. please donate! Between saving up to move in with my partner and getting a tattoo covered, every little bit helps.
Stories (3/0)
The Dark Side
From the late 1930s, when Disney’s first fairy tale movie came out, to today’s society and culture, our familiarity with the Anglo-Saxon fairy tales have been about beautiful princesses, handsome princes and happily-ever-afters. Today’s culture and today’s young adults have grown up with the animated musicals from Walt Disney. But many of the tales that these films are based on are by the Grimm brothers, and they are not filled with happy endings and songs.
By Elizabeth Marx6 years ago in Geeks
People of Colour and Mental Illness: Stigma and Culture
**This is a paper I did for a college course.**Introduction In the current society, mental illnesses are not viewed in a positive light. There are stigmas for each diagnosis. These stigmas, defined as “a mark of shame or discredit, or an identifying mark or characteristic” (Merriam-Webster), affect many people, and depending on a person’s identity, the stigmas may be more intrusive. When it comes to people of colour who suffer from mental illness, the layers of how difficult it is to live a decent life become deeper and more complex. People of colour have to learn to navigate what it means to be non-white and struggling with their mental health. To break this down even more into gender, those who identify as men and those who have to identify as women have different levels of acceptability. In comparison to white people of either gender who are more likely to be accepted and more likely to be able to access professional help, the struggles that mentally ill people of colour are also tied into cultures. The research will define mental illness as “any of a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning” (Merriam-Webster). This paper will not only explore how people of colour address their mental illnesses, it will also address how non-people of colour and people of colour without mental illnesses perceive them.
By Elizabeth Marx6 years ago in Psyche
Through the Anxiety
I’ve always been anxious. There are thoughts constantly circling in my head every moment of every day. Worries and doubts mixed with thoughts of you and love. Fear of annoying you mixed with your words saying it’s okay to spam you if I need to. I am always so scared that one day, my anxiety will be too much for you to deal with and you’ll just walk away. After all, every person I’ve dated before you has; after all, that’s all I’ve ever known, so my heart and my brain are already trying to protect themselves from the pain.
By Elizabeth Marx6 years ago in Poets