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Jae-Jones, have similar problems with reductive language. He writes in response to the reductive language used by his boyfriend and employer that characterizes him as “depressed” first and foremost. In an essay by Shaun David Hutchinson, the author acknowledges that his depression is part of his identity, but not essential to it. Aside from a racially diverse cast, she includes LGBTQ voices and the voices of those who live with disabilities. Jensen takes care to include authors who are diverse along several spectra. Bae ultimately left her parents to forge her own path, exchanging anxiety for guilt but soothing it through therapy. Hannah Bae writes about growing up in a Korean American family with a paranoid mother and emotionally abusive father, and how she struggled to form an identity while constantly worrying about them. Another comic, by Yumi Sakugawa, uses calm imagery to transmit her journey from despising to loving her body and mind.

In one, formatted as a comic strip, author Gemma Correll brings an illustrative depth to an anxiety disorder, inviting readers into her stylistic universe while suggesting that anxiety’s emotional universe is open to everybody. (Don’t) Call Me Crazy comprises a diverse range of authors and genres. Taken as a whole, the works seek to normalize discourse about mental health, making clear that no one suffers in solitude. Notably, the works in the collection refrain from biting off more than they can chew, utilizing vignettes and episodes rather than huge narrative arcs that tend to simplify in popular literature. They explore the personal and public dimensions of illness, including rhetoric about mental health, the science of the brain, and misconceptions and stereotypes. Formatted like a scrapbook, the collection contains thirty-three works written by different authors who have in some way grappled with mental illness.

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy is a 2018 collection of short stories, essays, poetry, and art published by American author and former librarian Kelly Jensen.