

I’m an artist, lover and mental health enthusiast. Most days. I’m versatile, ask Meredith Brooks.
ause of gun companies and beca…e United States has more guns than people, and there have been 2,000 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre of 2012. Nothing gets done about it, and nothing will get done. This is because of gun companies and becaus…
I don’t need to tell you that such violence is already here. All the time. According to Vox, the United States has more guns than people, and there have been 2,000 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre of 2012. Nothing gets done about it, and nothing will get done. This is b…
OneZero: At the outset of the book, you refer to your struggles with addiction as a mental illness. Yet you also write that you made a “life-or-death choice” regarding whether you “could continue colluding with … [your] mental illness” or “find a different way to live.” There’s an argument to be made that addiction isn’t an illness as we understand it, because drug or alcohol use is a choice, unlike cancer, for instance. Is it fair to use the disease model for addiction?