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Augustine: ‘Midsommar’ grossly misrepresents bipolar disorder

October 22, 2019

Content warning: This column includes descriptions of mental illness and suicide and includes a description of a death by suicide in the film “Midsommar.” Historically, the genre of horror films...

Buonomo: Billie Eilish romanticizes serious mental illnesses

October 13, 2019

Every generation has its own version of a social counterculture: a group of teenagers and young adults that embody angst, oppose the establishment and embrace the label “outcast.” Wearing their status...

Hejaze: Suicide deserves compassion

November 16, 2014

The closest I’ve ever come to suicide is seeing it in movies and television shows, reading about it and considering it. “I was swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I...

Mathew: Why do penguins commit suicide?

October 22, 2014

I recently watched a video that broke my heart. I learned penguins wander into the arctic, to certain doom, supposedly when they just can't take life anymore. In the video a penguin separated from the...

Evanston native honors late friend in novel, play

September 24, 2014

Evanston-born Richard Engling has never been able to replace the void left by his friend Fern Chertkow when she killed herself in 1988. “When she died, it left a hole in my life that no one...

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