Letter Thirty-Six: Dear What if My Mental Illness is What Makes Me a Great Academic?

I think both you and these artists were resourceful and creative, finding ways to get connection and encouragement from the world around you through your external accomplishments. You through a publication record and them through the showing or purchasing of their art.

Letter Thirty-Two: Dear To Share or Not to Share a Mental Breakdown

Thank you for taking care of yourself and getting the support you need; it matters that you’re alive and here to write this down.

I think what’s most important about the decision to share or not to share is about what would be helpful to you and what your boundaries are.

Because it isn’t the case of you ‘have’ to tell everyone everything or you tell them nothing at all.

There’s lots of choices in between those two things.

Letter Thirty-One: Dear Please Help with Embarrassment

Embarrassment is considered a complex emotion, meaning its root emotion is one of the major five: happy, sad, anger, disgust, and fear (otherwise known as the characters from the first Inside Out).

Which I think allows us to consider something important here: what feelings were also present while you practiced your symposium work.