Sally Helmi, 2020, I Don’t Know How Much Longer We Can Do This. “a reflection break”, 2020 the experiences that i am a part of are so intense that i often don’t know how to navigate how much space they hold in me and how long they can live in me. despite how exhausting being […]

You think it won’t happen to you because you are too smart for that. Your life, your terms. You think? “Just put me on the iceberg when I can’t clean my own ass” you say, tossing back a Manhattan, thinking that’s a pretty funny joke that we are like Eskimos. <Are we sure they even […]

Like everyone else on the front lines during these bizarre times, we all go through daily scares and tensions, but it’s a bit of a different ballgame when you’re dealing with mental illness. Most of our patients are clinically paranoid, delusional, depressed, suicidal, hostile, etc. as it is, but COVID-19 has been heightening these for […]

The summer closes as Covid cases skyrocket. Interviews with exhausted healthcare workers again dominate our media. But now, vying for the attention of our capricious conscience is Afghanistan. Like the virus we tried to convince ourselves we conquered, this country we deemed our enemy will not be vanquished. The images of the desperate flooding the […]