PRISM OF A LIFE
PRISM 05
Prism 05

Mental Health

My own mind has been a sanctuary, a battlefield, and sometimes a place I could barely recognize. I'm learning how to live inside it.

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Through This Prism

One life,
seen through mental health.

These are the pieces of my story that pass through this color. Some belong here completely. Others touch several prisms at once. Together they reveal one angle of a life that has never fit neatly inside a single story.

3 EssaysAnd Growing
Mental Health

Essays Through This Prism

Mental Health11 MIN READ

When The City Was Mine - Part Two

By the time Indianapolis became my playground, Lighthouse Mission had become the place where I returned every night. It was where I slept, showered, kept my duffel bag and learned the peculiar choreography of living i...

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Mental Health12 MIN READ

When The City Was Mine - Part One

In the summer of 2006, everything I owned fit inside a duffel bag, and every night I slept with my head on top of it. I was staying at Lighthouse Mission in downtown Indianapolis with roughly two hundred other men. Ab...

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There are eleven other ways into the story.

Return to the spectrum and choose another prism, or step into the complete archive and follow the stories wherever they lead.