Schizophrenia is a severe and ruthless mental disorder whose symptoms can include any abnormal social behavior, hearing voices, and not knowing what is real. It often accompanies other less severe mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. Needless to say, the sum of these disorders can be difficult to treat. 50 percent of people diagnosed with schizophrenia also struggle with substance abuse as a way of coping
But there are some who have turned to something much less harmful to cope with their condition :. . Art
the following documents have been created by people with schizophrenia. While some of them can be troublesome to look for their creative works to visualize these disorders in their heads. This makes the hard consistency of their thoughts a little more bearable.
1. "Electricity makes you Float" by Karen Blair, a woman living with schizophrenia.
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2. Notice the variety of moods, cystic creatures grow on the head of this man, representative of the confusion of schizophrenia can sometimes bring.
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3. Both photos were taken by an unknown schizophrenic artist trying to capture the abstract nightmare of his thoughts.
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4. This like a nightmare.
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5. This drawing incredibly complex was made by Edmund Monsiel, an artist in the early 100s that would have been a schizophrenic.
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6. This drawing was found in an old asylum, the artist was a paranoid schizophrenic.
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7. Representation harmful affliction by Erik Baumann.
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8. In 1950 Charles Steffen began compulsively making art like this on the paper packaging inside a psychiatric hospital. His obsession with the transformation is very clear.
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9. This artist suffers from a rare case of paranoid schizophrenia, which causes him to have visual hallucinations. One of these visions is a figure named "Wither", shown below.
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10. Spooky strange, but probably an accurate representation of schizophrenia feels like inside.
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11. This piece, entitled "Reasons for Mania," is schizophrenia as a dark threat.
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May 12. Karen Sorensen has recently begun to push the boundaries of his "madness "by publishing drawings and paintings on his blog
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13. a series of paintings of cats by Louis Wain early 100s They capture a slow descent to levels of variables schizophrenic episodes.
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14. another by Draak. Notice the two subjects run in two parts.
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15. This piece captures auditory hallucinations associated with the disease.
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16. This artist schizophrenic feels trapped by it all.
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17. Johfra Draak designed this in 1967, representing a schizophrenic Dante's inferno.
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We can never know that it is to be in the mind of someone who suffers from schizophrenia. The closest thing we can ever have is an art like this. Much of this art can seem scary and negative, but the act of resolving concerns on paper is a positive for the artists.
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