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Voices Inside My Head
Photo taken by contributor Teija, a 36-year-old woman from Finland. She suffered from a severe depressive episode at the age of 25, which turned into psychosis, and led to a three month hospitalization. Fortunately, she got better quite quickly and got her life back on track. She found love after getting out of the hospital. Her life changed drastically when her partner was paralyzed in December of 2012. It has been hard ever since. They are both fighting to keep from getting too depressed. Life goes on and they try to stay strong. She has been interested in photography for many years, but began actively exploring it over the last four years. Before her partner’s accident, she had made up her mind and quit her day job to pursue being a photographer. Now she is working on making her dream a reality.
About this photo: “I call this photograph, ‘Voices Inside My Head.’ I feel like that many times… not necessarily actual voices, but my thoughts running and running and running through my head, too much going on, or too much worries.”
Find more from Teija at her blog.
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Wonderful image.
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Laura, thank you ❤
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you’re most welcome 😀
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good luck, Teija!
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thank you so much, we need that and back to you too ❤
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Very dramatic use of light, nicely done.
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thank you!
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A fascinating image. It seems she wants to look at the world, but won’t let us see much of her.
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thank you Rhys!
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Great picture, indeed! And what a hell of a story! Literally…
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thank you GGsisters 🙂
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Brilliant…
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❤
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Teija……..wonderful vision, good work…..j
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❤ thank you so much!
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