ALL IN YOUR HEAD - by Emily Walz - staged reading

Imagine a sudden time, a thousand places, and single day where you wake up and find yourself not knowing where you are in your own house, where you find yourself shaking without control over your body, where you find yourself, your mind, just being crazed by some inevitable force that no one can see, that no one can guess about. Based on true events, on a true journey of growth, of despair, of hope, Emily Walz is just a regular, eighteen-year old girl who’s just graduated from high school and who’s ready to enter the wild roller coaster ride of college when, she suddenly wakes up to find that her whole life has turned upside down, and that she has an illness that no one can find a diagnosis for. She goes from doctor to doctor to doctor, but all say that the illness is all in her head and that she should be in a psychiatric hospital. Her journey is one of repetition, where she has hope of a diagnosis and where she loses all faith in ever finding out what is truly wrong with her and the next day she goes through this journey all over again. Will any doctor be able to find out what ails this now fragile Emily, or is she really this crazed girl, who is to remain a medical mystery forever.

Trigger Warning:  The play is based on real life events and contains adult themes that may be triggering for some individuals. Themes that are mentioned are: self-injurious behavior, blood, clowns, rape, needles, knives, vomiting, psychiatric hospitals, and mental illness.