Using Architecture To Explain 16 Mental Illnesses And Disorders

Not in my opinion - although anxiety can take many forms. You feel trapped and exhausted. The fact the sky appears to be caving in increases the anxiety because you can't get out.

They actually do in the video.

Same goes for the stairs.

My first thought.

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Sorry to butt in-- my personal opinion is that the house is "melting" and it's hard to get out of it, as if it's tar.

bleeding inside?

Not in every case. This is exactly how it feels for some.

Often time people compare depression to drowning while you can see everyone else breathing. Tbh, that's fairly accurate.

no i guess its just "smeared" :(

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Me too.

Some do, I agree, but most don't.

I appreciate his art very much. And have not criticized it. However you have to recognize the right of people to criticize it. He is an artist and he put his work out there. It's only normal that it'd be critiqued.

I thought one of the goals of this project was to invite conversation. That would include potential 'criticism' or questions about the ideas behind his work. Perhaps I misunderstood.

You're very right! But being a clinical psychologist, I can't help but think I know best. It is after all, what we do. Lol!

Agree...you say it well. Empathy and compassion, always be praised...Jody Dubois...

It is amazing and he nailed the ones I looked at!

F**k off

Why does this comment have so many down votes? It's just a question and it doesn't even critisise the work!

I think the fact he uses blocks refects a loss of stability and structural intergrity, as if the solid blocks of reality are fading rather than an ethereal loss of memory

A lifelong artist, I have also worked with Alzheimer's patients in a care providing capacity. From what I've seen, people lose whole sections of their memory, usually analytically based, which can be accessed using creative means such as pictures or music that bring back emotionally-based memories. I first noticed this in 2005, during an out-of-state visit to my mom. She hadn't seen me in a few years, plus I had gained a lot of weight due to medications I was taking. She was having trouble figuring out who I was, until I noticed among the family pictures on her wall, a pencil portrait I'd done of my older brother nearly 30 years before, after his death at age 19 from a car accident. When I said I was the one who had drawn that portrait, it suddenly all came back to her: she called me by name, & we spoke of those times, & other family memories. Since then, I've brought music with me when I've worked with Alzheimer's patients...we sing old favorites together, & they'll join in.

Don't think of it as different personalities but as the fracturing of reality.

I'm diagnosed as schizo-affective, n it fits. There's a "split" in processing, which creates many muddy areas of what is. Plus schizophrenia, schizo- -phrenia, split minded, is the name for a reason. The personality isnt split, but there is a split between whats perceived and what is.

If you see the house as one personality you can imagine the splitting between the single parts like feeling, perception, experience thougts and selfborders. The brokenness and falling apart.

Actually, it feels accurate. We process reality in a different way, and don't see things as others people do. So, the completely uncommon build of the house seems to fit the condition.

With my brother in law before he died, he was diagnosed with Bipolar type 2 with schizophrenia. We watched videos of him interacting with police, and talking to him later about the same instances you could start to understand what schizophrenia is. One police officer escorted him away calmly, versus his reality 10 of them dragging him away. FBI agents always watching him wherever he went and so on. Things he perceived as real vs the common reality we all know.

That maybe was the point.

CLEARLY the point. If it were perfectly aligned then it wouldn't symbolize the pain of OCD, would it?