Isabella Lanave was 10 years old when her mother, Fatima, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She detailed several of her mother’s suicide attempts, the most recent of which came in April 2017. “We started to talk about her past, her wishes and her bad feelings,” Lanave said. To this day, Fatima doesn’t like to eat fish because the smell reminds her of her mother’s death. Lanave hopes the photo project will shine more light on mental illness, which she says can still be something of a taboo subject.

Source: CNN May 12, 2018 18:00 UTC