"Unhealthy"
Subtitle: on coping with pain in socially inappropriate ways
By: Mika
Publisher: Confluere Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Portland, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Adult child sexual abuse victims; Mental health; Asian American women; Japanese American women; Buddhists; Self-esteem
Description: Mika, a childhood sexual abuse survivor, challenges the recommended compulsory positivity approach to coping with personal and external (e.g., massive earthquake in Japan) trauma and instead argues that there is no "healthy" or "unhealthy" way to cope. She outlines her personal, albeit controversial, strategies, including lowering her expectations, thinking about her own irrelevance in the world, pondering the practicality of suicide after her own failed attempt, and affiliating with Buddhism.  This zine is issued with a trigger-warning.
Notes: Cover title.

Purchased from the author at the Women of Color Zine Symposium, 2012.