Flannery received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside. She teaches film, visual and media studies in addition to French and Italian language. She is a published author, and her book on Taiwanese cinema was released in 2015. Flannery has been acting since she was four. In February 2020, she portrayed a cancer patient in a commercial and in March 2020 she was the lead in a short horror film. She is currently a member of the improv indie team Lord Pantsuit.

Find more of Flannery:

Instagram: @drflannerywilson

Twitter: @FlanneryWilson

Website: https://drflannerywilson.medium.com/

A Statement from Flannery:

"I wrote this piece in May of 2020—at the start of the pandemic. As I mention in the piece, my therapist at the time suggested that I write a letter to myself. I suffer from depression, so I tend to see things in black and white. In this piece, I’m giving myself a pep talk. I’m telling myself that I have the capacity to change and move away from destructive, self-sabotaging behavior. I published this piece to help other people who suffer from depression see things from a different perspective. In general, I like to shed light on mental illness in the hopes that the subject will become less taboo in our society."

Other credit: "I thank my former therapist for assigning me this exercise."

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