Title: "Unhealthy"
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.
Subjects: Adult child sexual abuse victims, Mental health, Asian American women, Japanese American women, Buddhists, Self-esteem
Places: United States
Time periods: 21st century