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Using Architecture To Explain 16 Mental Illnesses And Disorders
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If you had to imagine your mental illness or disorder as a house, what would it look like?
Federico Babina has just released a new project called Archiatric, which depicts 16 different conditions as works of architecture in various states of repair. The designs are chillingly abstract, but for anyone living with the agony of mental illness, they're all too accurate. An animated video posted to the Barcelona-based digital artist's YouTube page further intensifies the effect of the images.
Babina is known for architecture-inspired work, using a unique geometric style that takes clear notes from cubism. His designs are often surreal, yet underlined with cheeky humour.
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Dementia
Omg people...This man is an artist. These are HIS takes on various human conditions. Stop critiquing his choices and just appreciate his gift and willingness to share with the world.
Alzheimer
This depicts very well the bits and pieces of memory and habit that linger with this disease. The cracks are nearly all the way through, excellent.
Bipolar
I think this one needs to be worked on.... It's still too safe......
Dissociative Disorders
I can relate to this... Though in my experience it's more like being in a bubble. Although i fully appreciate what the artist was aiming for. Good job
Narcolepsy
All these disorders are in the DSM, which includes all mental illness, including cognitive/regulatory issues. Narcolepsy, dyslexia, etc are all in there.
Shame that Borderline Personality Disorder wasn't done!
I was thinking the same it's often overlooked
I agree. When I saw the title of this page, I immediately thought "ooh, I wonder what the BPD drawing will look like" and was quite disappointed when I got to the end and there wasn't one :(
Half the house has roses everywhere, the other half knives. In the middle is a throne.
Yes as I suffer from BPD I would have liked it acknowledged
BPD would be a house propped up on scaffolding and only half finished because someone tried to start from the middle and work outwards then realised how hard it would be and didn't have the motivation to continue.
Agree was annoyed that dementia etc is there but no eubpd
BPD is an Attachment Disorder. If you want metaphors - which we believe are useless and distracting - architectural ones, how about: tho definite structure, no retaining walls, any stress threatens total collapse.
good luck in designing a home representing histrionic inhabitants--one of the most difficult populations to categorize.
I was waiting for it
becasue BPD is a personality disorder, and, it is not as yet agreed that personality disorders are defined as a mental illness.
And yet it is diagnosed by a psychiatriat and they are quite happy to lock you up in a mental hospital. Personally I think of BPD as a developmental disorder. I didn't develop the right emotional and coping skills as I grew up because I had to teach myself to cope with the experiences I was living with and that isn't consistent with the world.
It was but then he took a knife to it!
lol!! :p
It's often impossible to overlook.
bpd is covered under disassociative disorders
Bpd is not dissociative
And what about ADHD?
That one would be a person inside of a house with way too many windows to choose from, pictured during a mild earthquake.
yes, I was thinking of something like that. ADHD is too many windows, too many rooms, too many thoughts and an intensification of sensory experiences.
It would be the Max Ernst image of multiple disoriented stairways.
Hey got distracted lol. Plus, it's technically a part of autism now.
You have a good point there. But.. ADHD, ADD and Asbuger are included in this so called "house" of Autism. I have ADHD myself and Adhd are one disorder of many in the autumn spektrum as it's called.
in no way is ADHD on the ASD maybe you have SPD which is as over80% of boys have been misdiagnosed with ADHD and actually have SPD the stimuli and sensory experiences Rachel mentions comes with SPD not ADHD
AsPergers
I don't think there is "a best one", only different views that "speak" to different people. It's very subjective.
Anyones view on anything is subjective 😕
I disagree, there are real experiences that people subjectively view, translate and churn out like translating a mental illness is some form of art. And as a person who struggles with bipolar, i find things like this represent the misunderstanding more than the illness themselves. The only positive i can derive from it is that it gets people talking about it.
I'm bipolar with PTSD, clinical depression, OCD, generalized and social anxiety disorder... list of other issues but my main point is medication has me doing well but the bipolar and the depression don't play well alot, so in my head, picturing a house that's bipolar, theres.almost no mania, its screaming for the mania to start, for the lack of caring and ability to just be a heartless bitch, if only for 1min.. and when it gets really bad.. that house is empty, there are no feelings, just completely numb.. no high, no low, i just stop caring...I think my brains trying to protect itself at that time
agree! because I don't get it
my sentiments also. I like the effort though.
Shame that Borderline Personality Disorder wasn't done!
I was thinking the same it's often overlooked
I agree. When I saw the title of this page, I immediately thought "ooh, I wonder what the BPD drawing will look like" and was quite disappointed when I got to the end and there wasn't one :(
Half the house has roses everywhere, the other half knives. In the middle is a throne.
Yes as I suffer from BPD I would have liked it acknowledged
BPD would be a house propped up on scaffolding and only half finished because someone tried to start from the middle and work outwards then realised how hard it would be and didn't have the motivation to continue.
Agree was annoyed that dementia etc is there but no eubpd
BPD is an Attachment Disorder. If you want metaphors - which we believe are useless and distracting - architectural ones, how about: tho definite structure, no retaining walls, any stress threatens total collapse.
good luck in designing a home representing histrionic inhabitants--one of the most difficult populations to categorize.
I was waiting for it
becasue BPD is a personality disorder, and, it is not as yet agreed that personality disorders are defined as a mental illness.
And yet it is diagnosed by a psychiatriat and they are quite happy to lock you up in a mental hospital. Personally I think of BPD as a developmental disorder. I didn't develop the right emotional and coping skills as I grew up because I had to teach myself to cope with the experiences I was living with and that isn't consistent with the world.
It was but then he took a knife to it!
lol!! :p
It's often impossible to overlook.
bpd is covered under disassociative disorders
Bpd is not dissociative
And what about ADHD?
That one would be a person inside of a house with way too many windows to choose from, pictured during a mild earthquake.
yes, I was thinking of something like that. ADHD is too many windows, too many rooms, too many thoughts and an intensification of sensory experiences.
It would be the Max Ernst image of multiple disoriented stairways.
Hey got distracted lol. Plus, it's technically a part of autism now.
You have a good point there. But.. ADHD, ADD and Asbuger are included in this so called "house" of Autism. I have ADHD myself and Adhd are one disorder of many in the autumn spektrum as it's called.
in no way is ADHD on the ASD maybe you have SPD which is as over80% of boys have been misdiagnosed with ADHD and actually have SPD the stimuli and sensory experiences Rachel mentions comes with SPD not ADHD
AsPergers
I don't think there is "a best one", only different views that "speak" to different people. It's very subjective.
Anyones view on anything is subjective 😕
I disagree, there are real experiences that people subjectively view, translate and churn out like translating a mental illness is some form of art. And as a person who struggles with bipolar, i find things like this represent the misunderstanding more than the illness themselves. The only positive i can derive from it is that it gets people talking about it.
I'm bipolar with PTSD, clinical depression, OCD, generalized and social anxiety disorder... list of other issues but my main point is medication has me doing well but the bipolar and the depression don't play well alot, so in my head, picturing a house that's bipolar, theres.almost no mania, its screaming for the mania to start, for the lack of caring and ability to just be a heartless bitch, if only for 1min.. and when it gets really bad.. that house is empty, there are no feelings, just completely numb.. no high, no low, i just stop caring...I think my brains trying to protect itself at that time
agree! because I don't get it
my sentiments also. I like the effort though.