Link Roundup Buttered This Week: August 1-7
A list of links to everything on The Butter this week.
mental illness
Link Roundup 
Health Disrupting Domesticity: Mental Illness & Love as a Fact
Ashley Ford and her partner Kelly on living with mental illness, and living with and loving someone affected by mental illness.
Family How to Cope with Your Sibling’s Mental Illness
Dena Afrasiabi writes for The Butter about what her brother's mental illness means for her.
Family A Country Called My Mother
"My mother is like another country I used to live in, familiar but no longer a place I call home."
Family The Resurrection of the Body: On Family, Mental Illness, and Grief
"We don’t get to be delivered of some things": The author, a hospital chaplain, reflects on family, loss, illness, and her late uncle's life.
Writing The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness
The author on why she believes Ophelia is the most important character William Shakespeare ever created.
Health The Circumference of Despair: On Depression and Language
Alana Massey on her depression, and the failure of language in relation to it.
Family Piano Lessons
Mary J. Breen on her mother, piano lessons in the 1950s, and her first exposure to mental illness.
Cartoons Broken Records: A Cartoon About OCD
Jason Katzenstein shares a cartoon about his experience of having OCD.
Family At the Gynecologist’s Office
Virgie Townsend, on overhearing tragedy and having hope at the gynecologist's office.
Health Perdition Days: On Experiencing Psychosis
Esmé Weijun Wang on what it is like to experience psychosis, and how her mental illness is present in her life on an ongoing basis.
Health Rock Bottom is a Myth: On Self-Harm
Ashleigh Brantingham on not being able to shake her desire for self-harm.
Health The Jumble of Chronic Mental Illness
Molly Pohlig on her ongoing experience of mental illness, and what it does and doesn't mean in her life.
Family Childless by Some Choice: Parenting and Mental Illness
Anna Andersen, on deciding to be childfree not because she doesn't want to be a mother, but because she believes it to be the best option for her.
Health The 17 Stages of Therapy
Kathleen Kampeas takes a darkly-humorous look at her journey through therapy.
