The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: High School. It has been lightly edited. Message from the Author: This poem is about the impact a short message or real interaction can have and what looking behind the mask of another person can Read More …
The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: High School. It has been lightly edited. I look just like you. But I am living in a different world than you. I live in the world of OCD. You sit next Read More …
The following poem was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: College and Up. It has been lightly edited. My Son My Son you came in this world giving us so much joy Your future flashed before my eyes, my sweet little baby Read More …
The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: College and Up. It has been lightly edited. Stigma is not only found among the family and friends of one suffering from mental illness. It also lies in the head of those suffering. They Read More …
The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: College And Up. It has been lightly edited. The more you try to reach it, it alludes you You think you’re going to get it but you ain’t seen nothing yet For only Read More …
The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: College And Up. It has been lightly edited. When I came back from my first stay at an inpatient hospital, I was scared to leave my house. I was scared of the questions people would Read More …
The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. It has been lightly edited. He’s following me. Every second of the day. He tries to tempt me, little by little but very quickly gains speed. Next to him, I am powerless. Addiction. Such Read More …
The following piece was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest. Age group: Elementary School. About The Artwork: Aviva Eizicovics, a Grade 6 student at Netivot HaTorah Day School, used her creative skills to create a masterpiece for Refuat Hanefesh. The artwork is called “A Puzzle Read More …
Adira Schorr, one of the winners of this year’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest, brilliantly opens up her emotions and feelings, allowing us to understand what mental illness feels like and acts like.