Paragraph 3: A University of Michigan undergraduate, Sonia Doshi, launched a series of confessional
performances on her campus called "The Mental Health Monologues," to help peers
explore the link between speaking out and healing. Doshi guided participants over the
course of three months to create stories, videos, and, eventually, live performances
describing their experience with mental illness. "It was incredibly cathartic to go through
the process of writing, creating, and sharing these stories. It was a way for them to
reflect on what they had been through in a safe space," says Doshi, now a Stanford
graduate student, whose master's thesis examines the positive power of technology on
mental health activism. "People are going to use social media no matter what," Doshi
says. "We're in this culture of communicating and consuming constantly, why not
capitalize on that? The power to have that impact on a wider, more global scale is
huge."
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