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I Illustrate My Darkest Thoughts To Help People Understand What It’s Like To Suffer From Mental Illness
I've been living with mental illness for as long as I can remember.
And mental illness brings many weird thoughts in my head. So I draw them to make people understand what things can be like in the head of someone suffering with mental illness.
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Exactly!!! I always let people leave a message on the answering machine or google the number before I even think about calling back...
At least you can’t see my ugly self in the dark.... That’s my thoughts
I use music. If someone needs to understand something that I can't explain, I make a playlist that conveys the message better than I ever could.
I once read some pro-cannabis website that seriously claimed that if weed would be legal everywhere then there would not be need for the psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric medicines. That was the biggest bullsh*t I had ever read. I am pro legalizing cannabis but it is sad that many pro cannabis websites spread false information how cannabis cures all diseases in this planet and that it does not cause any health problems. Spreading false information just makes the stereotype of 'stupid stoners' worse.
I know a girl in my school who I argued with about what weed does. I was saying that it's not the worst for adults but if you're under 24 it's damaging. I explained how brains aren't fully developed until then and smoking weed can result in long term memory loss. Her argument was "no, it's totally safe". She's about 14-15. She smokes a lot of weed.
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I am pro-cannabis. I only use it for pain nowadays. But I do know it doesn't cure mental illness I have tried many times. It sometimes can make them worse because they come right back when sober and usually on overload.
Not really. But it sometimes helps coping with the symptoms and that's something.
I think we should legalize weed and use the taxes from it to repave roads and call it project pothole...
Not Cannabis, personally as it ‘can’ cause anxiety, but mainly because it make me eat so much, but drinking, yes. I am so much happier and anxiety free after a couple of drinks. I rarely get drunk (well over a year ago), but nearly every night I have a few drinks. It quieten downs my over anxious, ADHD racing head.
As a psychiatry, I have to tell you that weed not only contributes to accelerate mental illnesses, but also provokes some of them (sorry, English is not my first language). I've been treating these months some people who have been smoking for years with "no problem" but something has changed and now they have developed psychosis. It is such a bad condition, no jokes. So I definitely advice everyone not to smoke weed.
This is so simple yet so accurate and really hits home for me. Even though it's definitely a challenge and damn near impossible at times to deal with, it's nice knowing that I'm not alone when it comes to mental illness.
Damn. I've felt all of this at different points in my life. And I'm only 20.
Same--I have depression and anxiety, and it was shortly after age 20 that I started getting it under control. My second 20 years haven't been completely smooth sailing, but they're a big improvement over my first 20. A big part of it for me was getting on the right medication, but there's also having a lot more control over who and what I have in my life, and there's a strange comfort in the cyclical nature of these illnesses--after having the "everything is terrible and nothing will ever get any better" feeling enough times, you can start to believe that if that feeling was a lie all the other times, it's probably a lie this time too.
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To all the people out there suffering from things like this, it'll be okay. I know how it feels. But keep your head up friendo. You're strong. You're powerful. You can get through this. Whatever is getting you down will pass. And if you don't even know what's getting you down, don't worry, it'll still pass. I believe in you, and I'm always here for you. Have a good day, friendo. <3
My counselor said approx : People with mental illnesses are soooo brave. And she would know. Best compliment I ever got. True too. Hold on people. If the first help you get does not help ask again. Give them feedback. If they run out of stuff ask for a referral to someone else. It is common with depression that it takes two years to get stabilized on meds. It is worth the persistence. https://www.boredpanda.com/faith-in-humanity-restored-wholesome-happy-random-acts-of-kindness/?page_numb=2 Number 17. Look for the people in your life who would do that for you.
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I'd felt all of this since my teen age until I finally learned to switch over to smth else. Now whenever I feel depressed I turn to reading. OK, that made me a hardcore book junkie but at least I can do without doctors and pills (-:
The worst are the parents that don't want to accept that their son/daughter is depressed and just keep telling them constantly how lazy they are and how they should be doing something/better in life etc...all while ignoring the fact that they are probably the main cause of what their kids are going through =_=
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Sorry, but I don't think this really helps with understanding metal illnesses for people who don't have them. Those are thoughts that everybody has at some points in their lives, and what makes them an illness is when you have them all the time, for an extensive amount of time and for no real external reason. I have anxiety, and I get told all the time that I have nothing exactly because the symptoms, by themselves, don't really seem like anything out of the ordinary, it's just the intensity of them that makes it so hard. It's great to express yourself, but in that point I don't think it'll help.
I think everyone feels like this at times, mental illness or not. Our biggest critic can be our own inner voice.
I feel like some random, small comment out of many, but this has hit me deeper than most things. As someone who is just coming to terms with having clinically diagnosed Agoraphobia, GAD and PTSD that has caused me to be unable to leave my house and fail university twice over the past few years, I have felt so alienated from others for a long time. These pictures represent so much of what I have felt all alone, some so specific that it heals me just to see the same thought expressed by another person. Thank you so much for creating these illustrations...
Hello, We are looking for individuals who are willing to participate in a study on mental illness and work. The aim of the study is to better understand the experiences of people with a mental illness in the workplace, so that organisations can better adapt the workplace to their needs. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. If interested, please leave a message and we will contact you or send us a mail to sophiehennekam@yahoo.com Participations consists of a 30 minute interview whenever suits you best. Interviews can be conducted through skype or phone or (if distance allows) at any place most convenient for you. We are researchers working at the University of La Rochelle in France and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The results will be used exclusively for academic publications. Thank you in advance for your collaboration. Sophie Hennekam
Hello, We are looking for individuals who are willing to participate in a study on mental illness and work. The aim of the study is to better understand the experiences of people with a mental illness in the workplace, so that organisations can better adapt the workplace to their needs. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. If interested, please leave a message and we will contact you or send us a mail to sophiehennekam@yahoo.com Participations consists of a 30 minute interview whenever suits you best. Interviews can be conducted through skype or phone or (if distance allows) at any place most convenient for you. We are researchers working at the University of La Rochelle in France and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The results will be used exclusively for academic publications. Thank you in advance for your collaboration. Sophie Hennekam
Yes. Yes. Yes. this might help: I especially like # 6 https://www.boredpanda.com/dark-humour-comics-about-life-james-regan/ __________________________ If things get really bad this is the best help I found. https://www.metanoia.org/suicide/__________________________ Or maybe you know someone who needs that second one.
Please, think of it as an "affection" instead of disorder or illness. Mental affections are not what you are. You have to deal with them the rest of your life, like any chronic affection, and that is a burden, always. But, please, it is not YOU! You are affected by it, no more, no less. But is isn't you. As soon as you can give it a place somewhere in your life, and accept it for what it is, it won't overtake you anymore. It will always be your "undertow" (read Garp), but you are the one in control who decides whether it takes you out into the void or not.
This is so simple yet so accurate and really hits home for me. Even though it's definitely a challenge and damn near impossible at times to deal with, it's nice knowing that I'm not alone when it comes to mental illness.
Damn. I've felt all of this at different points in my life. And I'm only 20.
Same--I have depression and anxiety, and it was shortly after age 20 that I started getting it under control. My second 20 years haven't been completely smooth sailing, but they're a big improvement over my first 20. A big part of it for me was getting on the right medication, but there's also having a lot more control over who and what I have in my life, and there's a strange comfort in the cyclical nature of these illnesses--after having the "everything is terrible and nothing will ever get any better" feeling enough times, you can start to believe that if that feeling was a lie all the other times, it's probably a lie this time too.
Load More Replies... To all the people out there suffering from things like this, it'll be okay. I know how it feels. But keep your head up friendo. You're strong. You're powerful. You can get through this. Whatever is getting you down will pass. And if you don't even know what's getting you down, don't worry, it'll still pass. I believe in you, and I'm always here for you. Have a good day, friendo. <3
My counselor said approx : People with mental illnesses are soooo brave. And she would know. Best compliment I ever got. True too. Hold on people. If the first help you get does not help ask again. Give them feedback. If they run out of stuff ask for a referral to someone else. It is common with depression that it takes two years to get stabilized on meds. It is worth the persistence. https://www.boredpanda.com/faith-in-humanity-restored-wholesome-happy-random-acts-of-kindness/?page_numb=2 Number 17. Look for the people in your life who would do that for you.
Load More Replies... I'd felt all of this since my teen age until I finally learned to switch over to smth else. Now whenever I feel depressed I turn to reading. OK, that made me a hardcore book junkie but at least I can do without doctors and pills (-:
The worst are the parents that don't want to accept that their son/daughter is depressed and just keep telling them constantly how lazy they are and how they should be doing something/better in life etc...all while ignoring the fact that they are probably the main cause of what their kids are going through =_=
Load More Replies... Sorry, but I don't think this really helps with understanding metal illnesses for people who don't have them. Those are thoughts that everybody has at some points in their lives, and what makes them an illness is when you have them all the time, for an extensive amount of time and for no real external reason. I have anxiety, and I get told all the time that I have nothing exactly because the symptoms, by themselves, don't really seem like anything out of the ordinary, it's just the intensity of them that makes it so hard. It's great to express yourself, but in that point I don't think it'll help.
I think everyone feels like this at times, mental illness or not. Our biggest critic can be our own inner voice.
I feel like some random, small comment out of many, but this has hit me deeper than most things. As someone who is just coming to terms with having clinically diagnosed Agoraphobia, GAD and PTSD that has caused me to be unable to leave my house and fail university twice over the past few years, I have felt so alienated from others for a long time. These pictures represent so much of what I have felt all alone, some so specific that it heals me just to see the same thought expressed by another person. Thank you so much for creating these illustrations...
Hello, We are looking for individuals who are willing to participate in a study on mental illness and work. The aim of the study is to better understand the experiences of people with a mental illness in the workplace, so that organisations can better adapt the workplace to their needs. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. If interested, please leave a message and we will contact you or send us a mail to sophiehennekam@yahoo.com Participations consists of a 30 minute interview whenever suits you best. Interviews can be conducted through skype or phone or (if distance allows) at any place most convenient for you. We are researchers working at the University of La Rochelle in France and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The results will be used exclusively for academic publications. Thank you in advance for your collaboration. Sophie Hennekam
Hello, We are looking for individuals who are willing to participate in a study on mental illness and work. The aim of the study is to better understand the experiences of people with a mental illness in the workplace, so that organisations can better adapt the workplace to their needs. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. If interested, please leave a message and we will contact you or send us a mail to sophiehennekam@yahoo.com Participations consists of a 30 minute interview whenever suits you best. Interviews can be conducted through skype or phone or (if distance allows) at any place most convenient for you. We are researchers working at the University of La Rochelle in France and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The results will be used exclusively for academic publications. Thank you in advance for your collaboration. Sophie Hennekam
Yes. Yes. Yes. this might help: I especially like # 6 https://www.boredpanda.com/dark-humour-comics-about-life-james-regan/ __________________________ If things get really bad this is the best help I found. https://www.metanoia.org/suicide/__________________________ Or maybe you know someone who needs that second one.
Please, think of it as an "affection" instead of disorder or illness. Mental affections are not what you are. You have to deal with them the rest of your life, like any chronic affection, and that is a burden, always. But, please, it is not YOU! You are affected by it, no more, no less. But is isn't you. As soon as you can give it a place somewhere in your life, and accept it for what it is, it won't overtake you anymore. It will always be your "undertow" (read Garp), but you are the one in control who decides whether it takes you out into the void or not.
