Wearing Wigs Gave Me Freedom From the Shame of Mental Illness
And then there were the wigs: exercises in risk-taking, rejections of my boring and shame-consumed past self.
Trish Grisafi, PhD, is a New York City-based freelance writer and editor. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Narratively, Salon, Vice, Self, The Rumpus, Bustle, Ravishly, and elsewhere.
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