Girl Draws Her Hallucinations To Cope With Schizophrenia. Shows The Dark Side Of Human Mind!

Kate was labelled as ‘mentally ill’ since she was a kid. She despised this label. It meant that something was wrong with her. At the age of 17, she was finally diagnosed with ‘Schizophrenia’ when her condition was getting worse.

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental condition. It can hamper people’s interaction with reality itself. But with Kate’s natural propensity towards art, it only amplified the way she drew and painted things.

And like any natural artist, she took the mental condition in her stride and painted her life as she saw it from the eyes of a schizophrenic. The art is amazing, to say the least.

1. “This one crawls out of the vent in my ceiling and makes clicking noises, or I’ll see it crawl out from underneath things”

 

2. “Here is an example of the disembodied eyes I see. They surface in a mounds or masses on my walls or floors. They warp and move.”

 

3. “Organization, communication, paranoia, depression, anxiety, and managing my emotions are the biggest struggles for me”

 

4. “I have a lot of intense emotions, and hear voices telling me to light things on fire”

 

5. “In my hallucinations I hear voices, sound effects, random noises, and I often see bugs, faces, and disembodied eyes”

 

6. “This is Birdie, she sings to me”

 

7. “I draw a lot of my hallucinations as drawing helps me deal with it”

 

8. “What eyes sometimes look like, with more of those odd colors and circles”

 

9. “This is a self-portrait. I looked in the mirror and my eyes did this thing. I painted it”

 

10. “My self-esteem is at its lowest, and I feel insignificant. I always wish I could shapeshift into a “prettier” person”

 

11. “I hallucinate bugs quite often, and my depression makes me feel worthless like a fly. These bug illustrations represent my illness”

We need to understand that mental conditions are not necessarily mental illnesses. Not everyone goes raving mad when they suffer from schizophrenia. Some, like Kate, manage it efficiently through her art. Some do not.

But we have to dissociate the stigma attached to mental conditions. After all, it is just like a physical condition some people are born with – say, six fingers on each hand.

It’s just a condition. Not an illness.

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