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Excited Delirium: A Pseudoscience, A Scapegoat, A Reckoning

Reading the officers describe excited delirium was like reading a person describe the symptoms of a rabid dog.

12 min readMay 7, 2024

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Excited Delirium: A Pseudoscience, A Scapegoat, A Reckoning

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Lobotomies Aren’t Funny

This week, I was targeted three ads for three separate products. One was a t-shirt with the words “Live, Laugh, Lobotomy” on it. The…

2 min readApr 4, 2024

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Lobotomies Aren’t Funny

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May Flowers Grow in the Saddest Parts of You

At that moment, I felt like this scribbling of bathroom graffiti could see inside my soul.

5 min readMar 14, 2024

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May Flowers Grow in the Saddest Parts of You

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On Talking to God, My Dead Cat, and Damar Hamlin

God sounded quite normal, like a person one might meet on the street.

4 min readMar 12, 2024

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On Talking to God, My Dead Cat, and Damar Hamlin

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Home is Wherever I’m With You: Pet Loss, Grief, and Finding Hope

And one day, I just didn’t feel as sad anymore. The clouds began to part. I could feel my own heartbeat. I could feel my boy, living life…

6 min readFeb 1, 2024

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Home is Wherever I’m With You: Pet Loss, Grief, and Finding Hope

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Walter Freeman vs. America

There is nothing that defines the treatment of serious mental illness in the 20th century more than the lobotomy.

10 min readJan 10, 2024

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Walter Freeman vs. America

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Madness & Its Discontents: The Link Between Mental Illness & Creativity

Was Socrates correct when he said all good things come through madness?

13 min readJan 4, 2024

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Madness & Its Discontents: The Link Between Mental Illness & Creativity

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Race as Pathology: How Blackness Became a Serious Mental Illness

200 years of American psychiatric history and the oppression of the black race.

10 min readDec 28, 2023

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Race as Pathology: How Blackness Became a Serious Mental Illness

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What Psychosis Taught Me About Reality

I don’t remember the first time the world felt out of place. It happened slowly and all at once. A thought here, a sound there. A voice…

4 min readAug 19, 2022

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What Psychosis Taught Me About Reality

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Melanie Cole

Melanie Cole

Melanie Cole lives with schizoaffective disorder & writes on issues of the intersections of mental illness, social justice, race & the mental healthcare system.

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