Headcase: LGBTQ writers & artists on mental health and wellness

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Introduction

Stephanie Schroeder, JD and Teresa Theophano, LMSW

Foreword

Kai Cheng Thom

I. Conversations about Mental Health and Wellness

1. Falling Through the Cracks of Queer and Black

Tanisha Neely

2. Queer-Affirmative Therapy

Arlene Istar Lev

3. Not All Wounds Are Visible

Louisa Hammond

4. Border/lines

Juan Antonio Trujillo

5. Sa Kanyang Sariling Mga Salita: Health, Identity, and Articulations of Self

Donald V. Brown, Jr. with Fidelindo A. Lim

6. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

Lynn Breedlove

7. LGBTQ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues: A Provider's Journey

Joseph Ruggiero

8. The Bone Crushing

Bill Konigsberg

II. Stories of Survival

9. In Chiron's Footsteps

Paula J. Williams

10. Not Our Fault

Chana Wilson

11. Figuring it Out Together: Mental Health Survival Strategies from Detroit's Queer and Trans Youth of Color

Lance Hicks

12. Sisyphus (or: Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies)

Sullivan Voss

13. The Family Legacy Ends Here

Teresa Theophano

14. Roll the Dice and The Wall

Michael Brown

15. Jesus and the Closets

Charlie Zaanti

16. The Lived Experience of LGBTQ Veterans: Finding Support within the VA Healthcare System

Kathryn Wagner

III. Encounters of the Mad Kind

17. Madhouse, Madhouse... Memories of Incarceration

Kate Millett

18. Surviving Science, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Mad and Queer

Calvin Rey Moen

19. Knowing Reynolds

Lucy Winer

20. On a Subway Platform, a Life Flashes

Here, Gone

Antoine B. Craigwell

21. This Work Is About Digested Socks

Gabrielle Jordan Stein

22. Taming My Inner Fundamentalist

Kelly Barth

23. Fix Me Please; I'm Gay!

Guy Albert

24. Crowdsourcing My Antipsychotic

Stephanie Schroeder

IV. Pushing Boundaries

25. On Listening to Clients

Christian Huygen

26. Problem Glyphs

Eliza Gauger

27. Erasure and other poems

Gabriella M. Belfiglio

28. Informed Consent

Ash Wickell

29. Bad Penny

J.M. Ellison

30. The Big Pink Elephant in the Therapy Room

Thomas Mondragon

31. GLEAM

Nikkiesha N. McLeod

V. The Poetics of Mental Health and Wellness

32. Outlier: The Agoraphobia Fragments

Kevin Shaw

33. Were You Confused as a Child?

Stephen Mead

34. Battling Depression as a Queer Mom

Crista Anne

35. Doctor Anonymous: A Play, and a Lesson in Medical Ethics

Guy Fredrick Glass

36. JEKYLL'S LOVER, T Is for Them, and Fools Gold

James Penha

37. Feathers

Benjamin Klas

Contributor Bios

Acknowledgements

Resources.