[Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

by Kelly Jensen

“He wanted to be committed,” an older lady beside me tells her friend. “Did you know that? Can you imagine?” Yes. And yes. (Self-Portrait at Level 9.5.) “I just don’t get it. His life doesn’t seem so bad,” the friend muses. I imagine all the portrait lamps craning to put a spotlight on me. I’d tap-dance for these ladies, singing like in the finale of All That Jazz: “That’s not! How it . . . wooooooorks!”