I Illustrated Mental Illness And Disorders For Inktober

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Joanne Palmer 9 years ago

I can really relate to this one!

91points

Major Depressive Disorder

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512points

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Karolina Medina 9 years ago

That is how I feel in my depression 😔

81points

Insomnia

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489points

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Bec McEwan 9 years ago

So many night spent like this...

51points

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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448points

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Wanni 9 years ago

Since 5 years I've got this f... disease and I can not bring it on paper how it feels... you got it! Thank you!

89points

Bipolar Disorder

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Imani Allen 9 years ago

This is beautiful. How could I get a copy?

53points

Borderline Personality Disorder

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423points

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Pixie Dust 9 years ago

I always find it fascinating how others see me, compared to how I see myself. While I understand the interpretation, and it is mesmerizing. I find, for me, it feels, like a perpetual black hole inside that nothing can fill, and, forever trying to decipher the reality of what is going on around me, as compared to how I feel is going on around me. People see BPD as instigatory and drama seeking, while, the few I have had the opportunity to talk to, agree, that it's actually reactionary, in a desperate attempt to keep up with the constantly shifting emotions. Chasing what can't be caught, reacting to what has already passed. Amazingly, I do see myself as naked in front of everyone. Like my emotions leave me perpetually ashamed and exposed.

175points

Autism Spectrum Disorder

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414points

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Traci Johnston 9 years ago

I think it's beautiful and perfectly shows the sadness from not being heard or understood.

86points

Shannon Miller 9 years ago

Are you autistic? I don't think this is an accurate account of my existence. I can speak but when I do it's as if Im speaking the wrong language. No one can understand and I end up on the sidewalk watching the world pass me by.

16points

Ja Nae Moree 9 years ago

It brings tears to my eyes, to imagine that this is what my daughter goes through every day of her life

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David G. Piper 9 years ago

Beautifully put. Thankyou.

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Tanthalas Meyer 9 years ago

I don't see it. What is it particularly about the picture that draws you to that conclusion?

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Ari Schwartz 9 years ago

I think it's not only the inability to communicate, but also the fact that, as an autistic person, I can ascribe some of the symptems as my brain is screaming and insisting I behave certain ways that I know on some level are wrong.

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Mila s 9 years ago

Are you certain that the behaviors you describe really are wrong for you, or is it just society that makes you believe you should feel they are wrong? Maybe they are the ones being wrong. As long as you are not hurting anyone else, its ok to be you.

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cmbriggs3 9 years ago

ASD is not a mental illness or disorder. It is a neurological/communication disorder. As such thus is a limited illustration of a person who has ASD.

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Bunny Battaglene 9 years ago

Thank-you for saying that. I wanted to but wasn't brave enough.I have ASD. I am not mentally ill. Just different.

16points

Soti Coto 9 years ago

Even the word "disorder" is prejudiced.

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Arianna Nyswonger 9 years ago

Exactly what I said.

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Kimberly Hutchinson 3 years ago

Comorbidity with anxiety or dysthymia is more common than not, as a result of social isolation. Leading cause of death for those with ASD is suicide. So, you can split hairs, but psychological distress on some level is a part of living with ASD, and can be lethal.

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Michealle Angela 9 years ago

thank you! I want to say the same too but you've commented it already.

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Sara Starr 9 years ago

I'm autistic and this so relates to me - I can almost never get what's in my head to my mouth to speak out loud

17points

Kaitlyn Neal 9 years ago

This one actually made me cry. I have Autism AND ADHD. I get bullied alot. Ever sense I was a kid. Many people, even my own close family, don't inderstand that sometimes I just literally speak my mind. Thank you so much!!

16points

Orion Cochrane 9 years ago

I have Asperger's & ADHD. I'm very literal & don't understand sarcasm or social conventions. Yes, I, too, speak my mind. I didn't get diagnosed with Asperger's till I was 20. I'm 31 now. My last job was very, very accommodating. My first boss there, Nancy, she helped me use some aspects of my Asperger's to my advantage. I worked in accounting. Neither of us work there anymore, but she is my best friend. I held down that job for 8 years. When our company merged with another & moved cities, I cried out to her numerous times that I thought the other company would have power over me & fire me if they found out about my Asperger's. She assured me that she would not let that happen. I'm looking for work now, & I have a very real fear that I, once hired, would have to explain myself to my future boss & I'm afraid I won't get the same accommodation I got at my last place.

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Libs Foord 9 years ago

❤

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S.A.N. Keller 9 years ago

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Rishav Banerjee Âû 9 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness and shouldn't be here. It's a normal form of human neurodiversity. It seems most of these images are from the eyes of neurotypical non-mentally ill folks.

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Karen Fischer 5 years ago

Yeah. Having an inability to speak and a constant urge to harm yourself is just natural diversity. F**k off. You are one of those high functioning faggots who only ever cares about themselves.

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Tara Lehman 9 years ago

sometimes autism feel like this, but other times you feel like an alien among your own kind: you don't fit in with normal people and sometimes you don't even fit in with others with autism and in the end you feel alone even though you are surrounded by people. All you want is to understand what is going on around you and for people to understand you too but because you don't know how to ask for help or how tell others what they need to know about you that you want them to understand so badly you end up alone with your own thoughts struggling to understand the world around you because nothing makes sense. You want people to understand but they can't and you feel like you are trapped inside your own mind screaming for help because you are trapped in a straight jacket made up of confusion and misunderstanding but no matter how hard you scream or how many tears you cry no one pays you any mind and no one cares enough to help and those who want to help don't know how soon they all leave.

13points

Monica Liu 9 years ago

I have a toddler with ASD, I see him cry when he starts to play and others leave. I was never diagnosed but it happened to me as a child. Back in the day this isn't even a thing so my mother just thinks Im misbehaving n beats me. Experiencing all that as a child I do my best to understand my baby. I hope he feels loved n understood that he ll never feel lonely growing up. For myself, it seems I can never get whats in my brain outside correctly. Making real friends was hard. I envy ppl who can effortlessly bring out their mind in the form of a single action, like a stamp, getting it right on communicating. No matter how hard I try, it just makes it more impossible, especially with my closest family. When family doesn't help it's hard growing up or as an adult. We just have to make sure 1 - survival skills, 2 - work on being love (understanding, communicating, whatever we lacked) with ourself. It is a hard process. But it takes acceptance. The world we want &the world it is seems at odds

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Codester White 9 years ago

That feels true for me. I'm an autistic adult and my younger brother is an autistic teen with ADHD. He and I are different in ways of knowledge and beliefs. He tells me how stupid I am when I don't know something he does, like how to read a certain word or whatever. He knows a lot of maths and a ton of other things while I'm creative and know different things from him. We sometimes share the same logic and struggle, but some of mine are different from his.

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Elise Williams 4 years ago

Yep. I think the grotesqueness and almost inhuman/dehumanizing depiction goes really well with this because ASD can make you feel like a real freak. When I was younger I almost convinced myself I was a werewolf because it just made sense. The impulsivity, the frustration/lashing out, being hyper and unmodulated, having to "transform" to participate in society, feeling ugly/inhuman, etc. It was genuinely less painful for me to perceive myself as a monster and "lone wolf" then acknowledge the fact that my peers weren't treating me like a human because of my symptoms. I think one of the rarest and most therapeutic things a person with ASD can experience is true understanding, simply because it's an emotional need that is mostly unfulfilled for us.

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SDorrance Minch 9 years ago

Shawn, neither I nor any of my autistic friends and acquaintances find autism to be monstrous and torturous, the way you depict it; occasionally we get overwhelmed by sensory input and need to find ways to escape the overstimulus, and often we find ourselves saddened or angered by the way neurotypical people stigmatize us, pity us, and basically treat us as less than human, but it's the way people treat us that is monstrous here, not our autism. Unfortunately, your drawing only adds to that problem. How unfortunate. Perhaps you could have consulted some actual autistic people before deciding to draw autism as something monstrous and isolating? And why did you sew the mouth of your autism avatar shut? Most of us communicate quite well, thank you very much, though some of us are more verbal than others, and some of us need assistive technology. Also, autism is a neurological difference, not a mental illness. Even the DSM-V says so. Please do your research.

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Jack Miller 9 years ago

Kindly p**s off. This describes how I felt a lot when I was younger. Tons of thoughts and feelings in my head and not a good enough understanding of how to verbalize them.

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OG_Spooky_loko_ETGC M8V3N 6 years ago

Autism SPECTRUM Disorder NOT autism.. obviously you have trouble just simply looking up the definition rather taking someone’s art as offensive. It’s HIS point of view first off secondary you might need you’re mouth stitched because ppl like you just talk because you can

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Yumary Salaz 6 years ago

I don’t know who is most of “us communicate quite well”. The definition of autism is “ a developmental disorder of variable severity that is characterized by difficulty in social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior”. Many of the autistic kids that I know including my son have a hard time even introducing themselves to their own family members and expressing their own needs. So with all respect , I don’t know why you would generalize and say most autistic kids communicate well, when they don’t. You’re the one who should “ do your research”

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Charan Chuol 7 years ago

I believe he is saying that having autism makes it difficult to express what’s in your mind (the mouth on the head), into words but they know society wouldn’t accept it as a norm(the stitched mouth) so they keep their mouth shut.

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OG_Spooky_loko_ETGC M8V3N 6 years ago

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Corina Becker 9 years ago

I'm autistic, and no, this is offensive

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Soti Coto 9 years ago

Damn f****n right. The last thing we need is another mundie portraying us as broken monsters.

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Carol Paiva 8 years ago

I think what the drawing is trying to portray, and what many people are missing, is the fact of how some people with Autism struggles to get what's in their mind to their mouth. It's not everyone, but some of them still faces this struggle.

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Alex Miliambro 3 years ago

Where as for me this is 100%accurate

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Karen Fischer 5 years ago

It's true. This is about low-functioning autism not a*s burgers you dumb pile of s**t.

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Linus Wenell 8 years ago

So am I and I find it fits very well with at least the most important problems I have; communication.

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Emma Falk 9 years ago

I agree! This is of poor taste. For the people with those mental illnesses, though, I hope people will not call them monsters. I am autistic, not mentally ill, but I hope stigma will go away.

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Mila s 9 years ago

Im Autistic and have ADD. I had the problem pictured above my whole childhood. But nowadays I don't even bother to try to explain, since they can never understand. others are just too different, and it's, ok. I must say I don't feel that their way is better. Neurotypicals are always bound by these ineffective and stupid social norms and rules. Saying one thing, meaning another. Feeling the need to do a whole social dance before getting to a point. Accepting the world as it is just because they are supposed to. I was miserable trying to force myself to be like "them", especially because no matter how hard I tried I never could. Now that I decided I don't have to, i feel like this picture over here. autistic-M...6d3c57.jpg

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Nicole Marr 9 years ago

Thank you for this reminder. As we work toward an ASD diagnosis of some kind for our 4 year old son, your words are the lesson I want to remember. Situations with social norms, rules, connotations, etc are always the most challenging for him. And instead of trying to make him fit into the situation, I am going to try to find HIS rainbow in the situation.

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Kele Lampe 9 years ago

Being on the autism spectrum isn't a mental illness, though.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

It's a disorder.

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Arianna Nyswonger 9 years ago

This is not a mental illness it's a developmental disability/disorder... (don't say I don't know I'm air autistic)

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

What is air autistic?

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Michelle Abrahmz 9 years ago

Autism is NOt a mental illness, by adding it here you only serve to legitimise those who think it is.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

It is a disorder miss. Perhaps you should check out the DSM-V

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Lillie Williams 9 years ago

This isn't autism as a whole. I think it's undiagnosed autism. When your brain is screaming but you've taught your mouth not to, because no one understands why you're upset. Worse--you don't either. Autism is a gift as well as a challenge, but when you don't know what's happening it's painful.

7points

Transica Hester 9 years ago

If you really want to draw something horror and autism themed, you should draw a person with mouths on their hands being grabbed at and stretched out uncomfortably by a great mass. Meanwhile, a doctor looking figure has their back turned, and is holding an iPad up and shaking their head.

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Dustin Skinner 9 years ago

I'm autistic and i can definitely say this is accurate. I have a hard time getting my thoughts and feelings into words and I know my brain is really different from everyone else. Something that's helped with communication is drawing my feelings. I'm extremely visual so for me it's a really good way to let others know how I'm feeling. I have a sketchbook specifically for meltdowns and anxiety attacks where I draw to the best interpretation exactly how I'm feeling. It's incredibly therapeutic.

6points

Nicole Taylor 9 years ago

I think this is a beautiful, yet sad representation of one person's take on autism, which is a DISORDER. At no point did the artist call it a mental illness. It clearly says mental illness AND disorder. As the mother of a child with autism, I feel this. No, she isn't nonverbal, but she often babbles and says things she doesn't realize are offensive. She lacks the verbal filter to understand how to express herself. Before you take offense, ask yourself, "Can I draw better?" Have you tried drawing something you feel represents it? This is symbolism, not the artist intentionally insulting anyone who suffers from this disorder. I don't look at this and see him saying that my daughter is a bald monster with a bloated belly. I see it and think it isn't possible to express ALL of the intricacies of autism in its many forms. I see it as him choosing one way to express it in art. Chill out guys.

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Kayla Tellier 9 years ago

It's beautiful but kind of seems like only half the picture to me. Though it's is hard to draw the whole picture I guess with everyone on the spectrum being so different. Kind of bothers me that it's part of this though, Autism is not a mental illness or mental disorder it's a mental difference that society isn't built for.

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Jo Pawley 9 years ago

Yes!!!! But the other side of autism is it can be a gift you just have to choose to see it that way. It's difficult not being understood why you do things or why they have to be done in certain ways but it can be a gift for creativity problem solving being an expert in a field etc

4points

Jo Thompson 9 years ago

This illustrates perfectly how I view my autism. This really struck a cord with me, I am so glad there are people in the world who understand what this feels like x

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Terra King 9 years ago

I completely disagree with many of these drawings. I'm bipolar and I don't think that the sketch portrays the disease at all. But, this sketch of Autisum is horrific. I have a grad child on the spectrum, fairly high. Not only is she beautiful outside, she is beautiful outside. How can you take such a wide spectrum and do a sketch that covers EVERYONE?

3points

Isaac Levi Felix Salinas 9 years ago

I wouldn't draw this one so sad, I personally find the autistic emotions as a gift very few will ever feel or understand. Being able to spend hours, days or years in any interest you may have without caring about social conditions: that's a very beautiful way to live and actually makes it up for not being so socially drived.

3points

Emma Falk 9 years ago

I am not voiceless, and my autism is not a mental illness... Why not depict the illness of society that is not accepting of us?

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

Because society isn't an illness.

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Rachel Hutchins 9 years ago

This is weirdly perfect. I have none of the other disorders or illnesses, so I thought they were over simplified. But wow, this picture is exactly what ASD feels like. Like a part of your brain is missing. Instead of quietly hiding your difference though, it is loud and apparent to everyone. I hope that others found the comforting resemblance in the other disorder pictures.

2points

Maria Lauren 9 years ago

The majority of people with ASD also have what is known as sensory overload, which is caused by having anxiety or some forms of panic disorder. Autism effects every part of a person, including mental health....which is why a NEURO-PSYCHOLOGIST typically diagnosis's the disorder. Also for the person who said ASD isn't not a mental illness because it can't be cured. Please tell what cure there is for major depressive disorder and social anxiety, because I'd love to have that cure.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

Neuropsychology isn't a field I'd accept. Because Psychologists only need one degree, a simple one. Whereas a Neuropsychiatrist has a doctorate which means 12+ years of study.

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Codester White 9 years ago

As autism is not a mental illness as it cannot be cured, it is part of who we are. This image does say something to what feels like, we have a lot to say from the mind but society disproves of our way of speaking. I use to be told not to say so much of what interests me because not everyone wants to hear it and I should learn more to listen. It's a struggle to fit in with other people.

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Katja Tanis 9 years ago

It feels like this for me. But also as a prison because my mind is going on lock down when I go into sensory overload. Mostly because people have hidden agenda's, say one thing but then act totally different. That's what makes it so confusing to communicate and interact.

2points

Travis Goult 9 years ago

First of all wtf that picture has nothing to do with autism Second of all its not a disorder 3rd it's not a mental condition it's a neurological one 4th it's not a thing to be sad about 5th i am autistic so I know how it feels and I'm fine with my life and I'm perfectly understood

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

Didn't your teacher tell you not to use words if you don't know what they mean?

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Miranda Tubbs 9 years ago

You are absolutely right. Autism to my mind is not a "disorder" in the first place but simply another way to be. I found this offensive . This is not my 3 children. They are happy, they are beautiful, bright and alive. And there is nothing "wrong" with them

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

Just wait til they are my age. Things will get tough when mommy isn't around.

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Cameron Ameri 9 years ago

Calling it a disorder adds to the confusion... 😤

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

How? It is very clearly called Autism Spectrum DISORDER by actual doctors.

1point

Doug Daluga 9 years ago

Brain is going a mile a minute wanting scream, mouth is shut tight, unable to find the words.

1point

Tito Martin-Nemtin 9 years ago

TBH I feel like the ears need to be way bigger. We can act out a lot of our stress and frustration but the big issue is that we have no filter for external sensory input--we can't ignore noises in the background like other people can. It has a dramatic effect on us. Still, I like the illustration for bringing about conversations like this.

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Johannes Ladage 9 years ago

As a person with ASD, I'd say this is pretty effective at both displaying the need to be understood, and also the effect of being massively over stimulated...the clawing, the implication of rocking back and forth, the despondent stare into oblivion...anything to try and alleviate the stress and pressure of living in a world where every sound, sight, smell, and texture is dialed up to 11.

1point

Kat Nelson 9 years ago

This is so apt. I have a hard time talking at times, but my brain won't shut up.

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Kenneth V. Jørgensen 9 years ago

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome exactly 15 years ago and somewhat recognize this. My 23-year-old daughter suffers from "real" autism.

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Cam,Don Sav,Shae 9 years ago

This made me sad my son has autism and I could not see anything that would describe how he probably feels

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Mila s 9 years ago

Don´t be sad, he doesn't have to keep feeling like this. Show him he's not wrong for not being like everyone else. Help him see his autism as a gift instead of a curse. Study up together on what autism really is and why. This will give him the words and help him explain to himself and maybe others why others think and behave differently from him.

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Soti Coto 9 years ago

So we're monsters with mouths coming out of our heads now? ... F**k you.

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Amy Price 9 years ago

I believe that's the brain trying to have a say but the mouth being unable to voice it.

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Becca Button 9 years ago

I was told this is what my brain is of.. it sucks to not be heard but here, you made it easier to get understood...

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DC Clark 9 years ago

I feel this so hard, mind you ASD is different for many. My mind is constantly screaming at me, while I struggle to articulate what I mean. I'm rarely heard or understood and it's incredibly isolating and frustrating.

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Jana Fuentes 9 years ago

You don't communicate like other people. Some things just affect you so badly, and you can't explain it.

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LeAnna Lukas 9 years ago

Autistic people have sensory issues too and feel more secure in a cocoon

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Queen Nanna 9 years ago

I agree. Seem this one more to depression for me too.

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Notchimine Mette 9 years ago

Ok. This is depression for me.

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Shye 2 years ago

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Dia bhuva 2 years ago

As an autistic person it's not perfection but it's not this bad and it's not a mental illnesses but its a disability♾️💕

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Kimberly Hutchinson 3 years ago

I’m reminded of the song “Silent All These Years” by Tori Amos - one of my favorites. Also the song “Voices Carry” by Til Tuesday. I recognize that we often learn to survive by being silent, even as we cry out for connection and understanding.

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radioactivecandy (they/them) 3 years ago

this is what autism feels like :( i blurt out anything i think of, so the head mouth is very on point

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Alex Miliambro 3 years ago

This is spot on My mind is screaming all the time but I can't express anything

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cyrus plays 3 years ago

ive been on the spectrum for years...its killed me from the inside i didnt understand anything and no one understood me but i feel like lately ive been learning and helping autism isnt a disability its a gift x

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Mayesha Bhuiyan 4 years ago

Yeah, well this is kind of relatable...

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Elise Williams 4 years ago

All of you idiots screaming about how autism isn't a mental illness didn't read the f*****g headline jesus. It LITERALLY says "mental illness AND DISORDERS" in the title, where is your reading comprehension folks. Also the distinction between illness/syndromes/disorders is literally f*****g semantics. If you're *that* offended by someone erroneously thinking that autism is a mental illness, maybe you have something against the mentally ill. Just saying.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Afton 4 years ago

I have autisim

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Creation Station 6 years ago

This is really accurate

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Kelly Brownlee 6 years ago

Wow beautiful

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Blake Chapman 6 years ago

This bothers me. This bothers me on so many levels, because I relate, but don't understand! Someone please help me here.

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angel feiel 8 years ago

i love it & instantly began to cry cause it reminds me of my son. his brain has got a lot to say but his mouth doesn't work properly so he is never understood!

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Magdiel Nazario-Santaliz 8 years ago

This one made me sad

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Kar Marsten 8 years ago

This tore at my soul

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Brandon Smith 8 years ago

This brought my wife and I to tears, as our 3 year old son has autism and greatly struggles with speech...this is beautiful in so many ways, thank you!

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Christopher Peterson 8 years ago

Guessing this is pretty accurate for those who can't communicate the fact that, "I'm Autistic". Perhaps the rest of us should just refer to ourselves as Bob, or Chris, Sarah etc...

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Lynn Wheeler 8 years ago

So much going on in the mind.. yet, unable to express their self correctly. Omg.. YES.. my daughter is ASD.. became a therapist to understand.. my heart breaks seeing this. As this illustration is on point.

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Natasha Basarab 9 years ago

thank you for this i have never in my life been represented in such a true image of myself as i, too, have teeth coming out of my skull x

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Susmita Saurav 9 years ago

Perfect!

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Benjamin Ong 9 years ago

one of my friend have autism

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T 9 years ago

I Have ASD. It is technically not a mental illness. It is difficult only because people with autism are so varied and often misunderstood.

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Christina Stevens 9 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness. I have twin 6 year olds on the spectrum. It is a neurological disorder. I wonder if this artist has ASD or spoke with someone about it before doing this piece. Just very curious as to what inspired this depiction.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

He probably did the sensible thing and went to a library and checked out the DSM-V and a bunch of documentaries.

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Christina Stevens 9 years ago

I have twin boys with ASD.. I don't really consider it a mental illness.

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Scott Smith 9 years ago

😢😢😢

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Ntha Sama 9 years ago

Autism isn't a mental illness. STOP stigmatizing these and stop and think about ableism plz

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

Please tell me how this is ableism.

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Nikki Luciano 9 years ago

My daughter has autism. She isn't non-verbal, but there is more going on inside than she knows how to express.

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LM Keenan 9 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness, it's a genetic neurodevelopmental condition.

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Amanda Lindsey 9 years ago

I am on the spectrum and I have felt this at times. The mouth sewn shut by the world around us, by peers and caregivers who believe they know what is best for us or how we should respond. The mind screaming out from anyone to hear the deer in the headlight look from sensory overload.

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Joan Canto 9 years ago

This caused the biggest impact on me, it is beautiful

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Sandra Moreira 9 years ago

So real.

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Brie Donel 9 years ago

As a parent of an autistic child this one really tugs at my heart. It's so very accurate 😕

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Sara Homan 9 years ago

What this is missing is the barrage of sensory input many people with autism experience. Also, autism is not a mental illness.

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Stephanee Morrison 9 years ago

Wow.

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Kenna Karjala 9 years ago

Loving someone on this spectrum is hard because it takes a long time to gain their trust and to let them know that you love them unconditionally, no matter their odd mannerisms and ways of expression.

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Chephtzi Fried 9 years ago

Wow . This one is really on point. People that have this disorder are so intelligent and brilliant . So many words in thier mind they wish to speak but the words just dont come out .

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Travis Goult 9 years ago

I have autism and I find this really offensive

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Mikkel Miller 9 years ago

I am autistic, and i think this is pretty spot on what its like having autism.

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Sierida Heald 9 years ago

Autism and ASD is not a mental disorder its to do with emotions and stuff, enough said.

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Sierida Heald 9 years ago

Autism is not really a mental disorder its more of a gift your born with

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

btw you ean "you're" and "it's" and what a comma is.

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Erik Haasianlahti 9 years ago

This is basically me. Very interesting work.

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Janet Pollard 9 years ago

My child is Autistic, she can talk but environmental (smell, touch, taste, light, sound etc) overwhelm her. If you are Autistic I hope you know that no 2 people on the spectrum have the exact same symptoms or triggers. This to me represents being trapped in your head without the ability to adequately verbalize what has you overwhelmed. Great representation of one aspect of the disorder.

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Ethan Gysbertsen 9 years ago

I have to say, as someone with autism spectrum disorder, it does sometimes feel like this. Your brain is always working and thinking and connecting, and sometimes you want to share this exciting new thing you've come up with or discovered. But either you can't get the words to come out how you want them because it's living in your head as a thought not words; or you just can't find anyone who is actually interested. It can get lonely sometimes. And I can't even speak on behalf of those who aren't on the high functioning side of the scale. So I want to thank this artist for helping to represent what it is that is actualy going on.

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Maria Palmado 9 years ago

If you find yourself in this kind of illustration, there is still hope in the person of Mr. Raun Kaufman. He was able to cross the bridge from his small world to ours by the unconditional love of his love ones that patiently built for him. Now, he is a man with a purpose with no traces of autism.

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Melinda Baldwin 9 years ago

It does say in the title mental illness AND disorders. I know from experience that no two people with ASD are going to have the same experience as the other. This artwork may not represent to you what ASD is, but it may to someone else. It's ART. Enjoy it, don't enjoy it, be mad, be happy at least let it make you feel something.

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Michaela Banks 9 years ago

Stop thinking this is the picture OF somebody who has this illness. Its about how you feel when you suffer from it. And this is exactly how I feel.

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Amy Ford 9 years ago

I understand this picture but i dont agree with it. It portrays that been autisic is a bad thing. Yes its hard at times. But so rewarding. I wouldnt change my son been autisic for the world. Its just finding ways to help him communicate what he is thinking and how he is feeling.

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Colin MacDonald 9 years ago

As many others on this post I too am on the spectrum(or what used to be a spectrum) and this also relates to me because the things I say aren't really the things I want to say or how I say them. My brain really has its own way of not thinking before doing and "yelling" it out instinctively instead of taking the time to see if it is correct or, and I hate saying this, "acceptable."

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Cameron Ameri 9 years ago

I have Austism and calling it a disorder adds to the confusion....

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Heather Smith 9 years ago

This is beautiful

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Janet Peel 9 years ago

Nobody is saying ASD is a mental illness. It quite clearly states at the top mental illnesses AND disorders. As someone who lives with a partner who has ASD, this drawing beautifully illustrates ASD to me. I would also like to say that the majority of the comments posted here have helped me enormously to understand more. As much as I love my partner and support him totally, sometimes he can't explain enough to me how he feels not just in himself but re his place in the world. So many of your comments have helped me learn more to be able to understand more. Thank you.

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Martine Gøttler 9 years ago

I am autistic and this fits perfectly, and I don't mind it being here even though autism isn't a disease. Not being understood can make you sick

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John King 9 years ago

this is so relateable

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Barbara Pierce 9 years ago

So many people are getting upset that this person decided to draw a representation of Autism Spectrum Disorder (kudos to artist for naming it correctly). As a person who deals with this on a daily basis, the artist gets a pretty good representation of how it FEELS to have this disorder. Mentally, there's a lot going on, things that we want to say and express, but we can't always verbally express what we mean and it's frustrating and saddening. It's art, quit trying to bash it, and move on if you don't/can't appreciate it for what it is.

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Matt Gleghorn 9 years ago

the best representation ive ever seen

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Robert Byrd 9 years ago

Haunting.

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Robert Byrd 9 years ago

Haunting.

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Jennifer Hunt 9 years ago

This is so much how I feel. I've never been classed as on this spectrum, but there are many of its features with which I identify.

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Kai ByRoade 9 years ago

Omfg this one made me so sad... I want to give them a hug so bad...

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Tyler Bunty 9 years ago

even though my autism isnt this severe there are still times that i feel like this

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Marie Vasquez 9 years ago

😔

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Tyler Bunty 9 years ago

wow this hit me deep even though my autism is not as severe there are still moments where i feel this way

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Nicole Casanova 9 years ago

Although autism is not a mental illness I find this art sad and it hurts my heart to see this person's mouth sewed shut I'm sure it signifies not being able to speak.but wow..I have two children on the Autism Spectrum my son 5 years old and nonverbal I'm just saying this art made me feel terrible for my son and don't think it represents autism very well.

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Jessica Ivan 9 years ago

Beautifully done!

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Transica Hester 9 years ago

You know, if you really wanna draw out something horror and autism themed, draw someone with mouths on their hands being stretched out and grabbed at uncomfortably. Their hand mouths are being stretched. Facing away from the mass of ignorant abusers is a blindfolded doctor holding an iPad and shaking their head.

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TiaLisa Madupoju 9 years ago

😥

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Rebecca Langlois 9 years ago

My brother has ASD and due to it at 21 years old has never been able to speak a word. This hurts to see because even though we love him so much this must be how he feels everyday

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Nicolene Holtzhausen 9 years ago

I had a student with atism, he is a great kid, I wish I could make his bullying teen class mates understand this.

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Davi Williams 9 years ago

This has to be one of the most hauntingly beautiful pictures of this illness I've ever seen!! Fantastic work my friend.

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Corrinne Pace 9 years ago

It's funny, the Bipolar didn't resonate with me as who I am, but as a Special Education Teacher, this one moved me to tears. It's stunning.

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Leigha Nelson 9 years ago

This is super accurate

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Meghen Nicosia 9 years ago

I'm autistic and I hate it I've never accepted it, I've been picked on, used , and treated like trash, people see me as a freck or as a 5 years old. I have a very small amount of friends that see me as a person. For years I only had my animals for comfort and I still do go to my animals for comfort seen there are only ones that have never hurt me.

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Rebecca Moore 9 years ago

How powerful is this...

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Hendrik Daniels 9 years ago

wtf has this to do with autism ? did you ever meet a real autistic person? they are not retarted

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Barbara Pierce 9 years ago

Please don't be rude out of self righteous indignation on our behalf. Indeed, we are not (btw it's spelled "r******d"). But it does give a pretty good representation of how it FEELS to be autistic. We have so much we want to say, but we have a VERY difficult time expressing it in a way that people will understand/accept. It has taken me several years to get this far and being online helps, since you don't have to see the person you're talking to. The other part of the drawing that resonates is that we ARE a bit sad at not being able to adequately express ourselves. It's not a complete picture of autism, but a representation of one aspect of it that stands out.

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Byron Tolbert 9 years ago

Illustrated perfectly powerful. Wow.

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Lisa Jeanetta 9 years ago

@roo gauba- neurotypical, not "normal"

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Lucas Scerbo 9 years ago

Yep. Definitely describes me

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Mila s 9 years ago

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Beth Soucy 9 years ago

I wonder if this is how my daughter feels sometimes 😓

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Roo Gauba 9 years ago

I have ASD and anxiety and this sums it up perfectly. Thank you for showing to normal people what this disability is.

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Nikki Paniagua 9 years ago

As the mother of a child with autism, this really breaks my heart. Probably the best representatiin of autism I've ever seen :'(

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Jaime Ann 9 years ago

Yes.

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C Oakdown 9 years ago

Autism isn't a mental illness *sigh*

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Psalm Kivinen 9 years ago

Yes.

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Başak Karacan 9 years ago

this is spectacular. im speechless

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Aurélie Despres 9 years ago

Well just to mention autism isn t a mental disorder.

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Jenna Brown 9 years ago

Autism is NOT a mental illness. And not all of us are unable to communicate verbally or with Neurotypical people.

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Katherine Rizk-Watson 9 years ago

Not just not being heard or understood...unable to express your feelings and the pure frustration. Excellent expression of the syndrome.

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Elen Toufexis 9 years ago

Such a great piece! So spot on!

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Kalyn Morris 9 years ago

Thank you for including ASD! Your illustrations are absolutely on point.

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Bismuth Pride 8 years ago

This drawing reminds me of how Autism $peaks represents autism: Something inherently horrible. Truth is, if there's anything terrible about autism, it's how it's treated by society. Autistic people often are treated like children or animals. Like freaks or monsters. Something not-so-subtly represented in this drawing.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

There are a lot of bad things about autism. I should know, I have it.

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Erika Leboeuf Mungovan 9 years ago

This... this describes ASD perfectly. And compine it with Major Depression and anxiety... nightmare.

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Wade Kennedy 9 years ago

Thank you

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Robert Khattar 9 years ago

Isnt autism a mental disability, not a mental illness?

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Barbara Pierce 9 years ago

Um you are correct in knowing that it isn't a mental illness, but rather it is a DEVELOPMENTAL disability.

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Tyler Dallas 9 years ago

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Michael Nemitz 9 years ago

Look 2 comments up from you "I'm autistic and this so relates to me - I can almost never get what's in my head to my mouth to speak out loud"

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

Final score:

371points

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Kayleigh Liddell 9 years ago

My husband is schizophrenic and I must say mostof these images really show the torment of the disorders, but this one could be more so I think. It doesn't show how horrible and degrading schizophrenic delusions can be. It's like torture.. it's like having your entire being torn apart and eaten alive by demons that no one else can see. His voices torment him 24/7... Sometimes his hallucinations keep him from sleeping... Besides it always being like he's in a room full of people judging and putting him down, he also hears explosions and smashing noises that will keep him up all night. This disorder permeates every part of our lives. Of all the seriously mental health disorders I think this one is the most extreme and debilitating BY FAR. Now a days, 2 years into him being a full blown schizophrenic, caring for him is like taking care of an old person with dementia.. he doesn't cook for himself, he barely cleans.. and doesn't remember anthing we talk about.. lots of notes and alarms...

6points

OCD

Final score:

347points

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Loretta Lockhart 9 years ago

My OCD is also not to do with cleaning, but it brings the point across. Have to do it else you can't get comfy and it destroys you. Mine's to do with routine, I have routines with routines, and timings. It's pretty bad and pretty much ruins my life.

81points

#10

DPD

Final score:

322points

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over opinionated 9 years ago

I didn't even know this was a thing. I've never been able to be alone I have to have someone close by. I looked at this picture a very long time. I have never seen something describe me so clearly.

83points

#11

Anorexia Nervosa

Final score:

238points

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rachelgators 9 years ago

The shadow on the floor - very well depicted.

103points

#12

Depersonalization Disorder

Final score:

230points

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Kimi Lewis 9 years ago

Absolute 100% accurate depiction. Depersonalization is what triggers my panic attacks, particularly nocturnal panic attacks. I'm 34 and have dealt with pretty severe mental illness since 18. Although managed on meds, it's impossible to ever be 100% again. Thank you for your incredible drawings. I appreciate these so much. ❤️

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#13

Agoraphobia

Final score:

222points

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Petra Jahnke 9 years ago

Always getting worse in the darker seasons...

32points

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#14

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Final score:

214points

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Anna Shields 9 years ago

This is an amazing illustration for the insidious disease that I have. Your work just surpasses words...keep up the good work

38points

#15

Capgras Syndrome

Final score:

197points

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Jo Sheppard 9 years ago

Hadn't heard of this one either! Very interesting. "Capgras Syndrome, also known as Capgras Delusion, is the irrational belief that a familiar person or place has been replaced with an exact duplicate — an imposter (Ellis, 2001, Hirstein, and Ramachandran, 1997)."

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Cotard's Delusion

Final score:

179points

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SSBRocks3 9 years ago

Had to google this: It is a rare mental illness in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that he or she is already dead, does not exist, is putrefying, or has lost his or her blood or internal organs.

111points

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DSED

Final score:

160points

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Notchimine Mette 9 years ago

Bloody hell! This is what my cat has!!!

98points

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Schizophrenia

Final score:

156points

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Branka Đokić 9 years ago

This one reminds me of Carpenter's "In the mouth of madness". Good job!

19points

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Exploring mental illness through art can be a powerful way to convey emotions and experiences that are often hard to articulate. Shawn Coss's work during Inktober is a prime example of how these themes can be expressed creatively.

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Joanne Palmer 9 years ago

Brilliant art work & building great awarness for this hidden yet crippling mental disorders <3

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James Barrow 8 years ago

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NeatAndNice 9 years ago

I miss mine. Panic disorder. And hypochondria.

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Mihaela Šagadin 9 years ago

Yep, social anxiety and agoraphobia are linked to it, but still misses general anxiety disorder with panic attacks, by which I mean we're not necessarily having it in social situations.

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Michalis Spastris 8 years ago

Hypochondria relates to OCD above, maybe

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Charlie Jemison 9 years ago

This is an ongoing series, October isnt over yet

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Ewa Lubuśka-Cekus 9 years ago

And all of them may link to mine: selective mutism.

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Jaye Marsh 9 years ago

Still a few more days to go...

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iamthegrayone 9 years ago

Haunting and amazing images.

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Dee Frame 9 years ago

I agree with "iamthegrayone"

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Alex Laroche 9 years ago

I'm a student in psychology, and your drawing really fit with all the description that we can see in class. That's an amazing work !

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Max Olsen 8 years ago

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Guinevere 9 years ago

One thing is clear to me - there is nothing quite as scary as the human mind!

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Emily Pode 9 years ago

I'm always curious why society has selected a hand full of mental illnesses that should be taken seriously and the small handful of ones that people can "just get over" things that are though to only effect a small group of people like children so when an adult has it they need to just grow up. ADD doesn't go away when you graduate and it isn't just a learning disability. It's there when you try to drive, when you spend five minutes trying to get that word back that you had in your head and you couldn't spit out. When you can't remember a simple task you've been given seconds ago or when you just can't stay on task even if it's a task you want to do and you love to do, sometimes your brain holds the leash and you can't pull it free. It's a deafening silence in your head begging for your attention. It'd be nice if people would stop calling it just a learning disability, it sucks all the time not just in school.

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Lauren Burk 8 years ago

I didn't know I had it until I tried to hold down a job in my field and couldn't manage multiple tasks with differing priority levels and a very rapid paced and stressful worm environment. I always just assumed I had a horrible attention span and ability to focus and stay on task while in college.

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Sarah Lund 9 years ago

Wow! How can I get a copy? x

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Angharad Martin 9 years ago

How would you portray ADD? I'm forever told that "oh I know just how you feel" and "I'm just the same" or "you don't run round lots?" And it's infuriating as they don't see that it's not just one little thing but lots,constantly and endless energy in your head or the need to disconnect and having to scratch and bite yourself to stay engaged and stimulated or the way it destroys friendships. Never being able to achieve a dream or idea as its too big or quickly too dull. Held in place by your own enthusiasm and ideas.

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Jesse Wiatrak 8 years ago

Isn't that ADHD?

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Angela Kadrovach 9 years ago

Add is tricky. At times I can feel bombarded by everything around me. No being able to filter out what is important and what is not. Other times I am in my own little bubble, hyperfocusing on my task oblivious to everything else going on around me.

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Emily Pode 9 years ago

I was wondering that myself. It's awful. The way it can feel so quiet in your head and you want to do something to wake yourself up a little and the feeling of not being able to control your brain is just uncomfortable to say the least. I hate the way I feel off meds because I feel like I don't have that controll over my brain. It's like it's it's own entity that's always trying to reign you back into submission.

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Destiney Anderson 8 years ago

These are all very spot on, but on anorexia, I know a lot of people, including myself, it felt like a voice in the back of your head, so a figure behind them like whispering in their ear would have completed it

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LaNise Essick 9 years ago

These are insanely dope!!! How can I get in contact with the artist?!

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Roxenne Montesclaros 9 years ago

He's on Facebook, his page is Shawn Cross - Artist

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Miki Geiger 8 years ago

Heartbreaking yet incredibly accurate portrayals. Very well done!

1point

Deanna Dalton 9 years ago

I find these pieces valid and beautiful. I am curious as to the process of creating of this art.

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nero ham 9 years ago

Can you make one for skitzoaffective disorder

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Nicole Romero 9 years ago

Absolutely amazing! Very well done, you're EXTREMELY talented!

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Andrew Perotti 9 years ago

Well done I really enjoyed passing by really would like to see what you could do with dyslexia

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Monica Ribau 9 years ago

Brilliant work congratulations

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Lex Lemon 9 years ago

I have social anxiety really bad, and have had it pretty much all my life, and I've never seen anything so accurate! I'm kind of glad that it was social anxiety rather than general anxiety, because I never see anything with social anxiety, it's good because I have SAD rather than GAD

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Rafi'ulfath Riwansia 9 years ago

everytime I see post that I don't understand but somehow get so many viewer or upvotes I always assume it must contain some secret language or so. :|

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Notchimine Mette 9 years ago

This has been enlightening. The pictures reminds me of that game "Limbo".

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Ditto 8 years ago

Me too.

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Alexa Gori 1 year ago

It should be placed in psychology textbooks as an illustration.

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Dorian Reeves 2 years ago

As an autistic person the autism one is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen idk why

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Gay child 2 years ago

Kind of sad they didn’t do one about adhd. But other than that these really depict well

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Rivka Strom 4 years ago

I want to share your work on my podcast

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Recipe Dragon 6 years ago

Incredible, powerful, accurate, Thank you! The ones speak to me most are PTSD, Bipolar, Autism, Depression, Anxiety, Cotards Delusion, DID. Always protect your Brain kids! Have you ever thought of creating one for PNES(Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures) II believe it may qualify, and would be interested to see how you see it. https://www.epilepsy.com/article/2014/3/truth-about-psychogenic-nonepileptic-seizures

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Kat Haze 6 years ago

Brilliant depictions of these disorders. Talent!

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Laldinthara Khiangte 7 years ago

Good thing I don't suffer from any of these. Or...DO I? No...What am I thinking?

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SriGanesh.Ninja 8 years ago

These drawings are far more creepier that the mental disorder

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Aiyana Cronkrite 8 years ago

I don't understand the BPD picture, I suffer from BPD, but for some reason I don't understand what is happening and why it's happening...in the picture I mean

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Hannah Lawrence 8 years ago

I have PTSD, and immediately cried upon seeing your illustration on it. It's painfully accurate and I appreciate the artwork as well as bringing awareness to people who may not understand.

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Michael Wise 8 years ago

Don't understand all the crosses for Schizophrenia. Don't know how they are tied to the disorder, please someone try to elaborate and explain to me why they might be there

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Phillip McCordall 8 years ago

Why oh why are all these illnesses portrayed in this way !! we have an illness like malaria or chickenpox. Illustrating this with pen and ink gives a total missinterpratation of what is simply an illness like any other.

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Anna Perry 8 years ago

What are these drawings meant to do?

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Loza Rose 8 years ago

This is amazing. I was hoping so much for an ODD one.

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Lorand Kiss-Istok 8 years ago

wow

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Emma Karlsson Öström 8 years ago

Absolutely amazing pictures. I would love to order one of the pictures. Is there any way you can do it? / Emma

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Napalm Philus 8 years ago

I wish you would do one about OCPD, ADHD or Alexithymia. I suffer from these three. :(

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Gina Richards 8 years ago

Spot on for bipolar! Very talented.

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Emily Pearce 8 years ago

These are amazing but the ocd picture only showed one type of ocd and it's the only one most people think of but it's not necessarily most common. It's a misconception that's it's purely a cleanliness or neatness obsession. It is so much more than that. It doesn't help awareness of that illness.

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Jenny Bruce 8 years ago

I do think the artwork is really good but OCD isn't just about cleaning as I have OCD and I'm not obsessed with cleaning and I don't think clean clean clean all the time. Jennifer xx

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Beth Taccia 8 years ago

Very amazing art thank you

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Kei Kei 8 years ago

This is really amazing.

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Justin Peterson 8 years ago

Absolutely fantastic. Actually gave me goose bumps because of how accurate some of these feel for me.

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Brandy Bennett Gibbs 8 years ago

Wow! Are any for sale?

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Gabriel Cunha Bezerra 8 years ago

Very good

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Victoria Harper 8 years ago

This is amazing! Maybe you could do one for Body dysmorphic disorder, I guess you get requests all the time xx

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Christel Capili Acierto 8 years ago

Great art works perfrct for Tim Burton's production ㅋㅋㅋ

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Helen Vicary 8 years ago

I found these images a bit triggering. I spend a lot of energy trying to remind myself that mental illness is not mysterious or sinister or having a destructive motive of its own, and that there is no "dark force" at work. I appreciate that these pictures do represent lived experience for some, for me too. But personally I find that personifying the illness makes it scarier than it already is. Certainly it's an interesting post though, and it's encouraging to see from the comments that a lot of people take solace in these pictures.

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Alexus Geier 8 years ago

Great thing to look at if you wanna learn about this kinda stuff but have a artist soul

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Mani Singh 8 years ago

http://recipeshindimein.com

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Michelle Rakestraw 8 years ago

lovedloved them all a

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Mina Blandon 8 years ago

These drawing are beautiful

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Heather Mccoig 8 years ago

Please, please, please do ADD and/or ADHD

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Luisa Bozzay 8 years ago

A couple are missing, but still hauntingly beautiful

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Katerina Pol 8 years ago

I wish the artist or someone else could comment on the "#5 bipolar disorder" drawing's symbols...

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Brianna Evans 8 years ago

Forgot one .... adhd

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Dee Frame 9 years ago

I am not lazy and did post and did get this response!!!!!! Hey Dee Frame, Woohoo! Your comment "I agree with "iamthegrayone" " has got its first upvote.

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Angela Kadrovach 9 years ago

I would like to see ADHD. Constantly being bombarded with everything around you and not being able to filter things out.

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Just a Purpler 9 years ago

So does this mean you stopped after the 18? Wish I could see some more...

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Laura Bayird 9 years ago

Would have been interested in the artists take on Post Partum Depression, or worse, Post Partum Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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Bijou Po 9 years ago

The darkness in every one of these really disturbs me - I think they portray people living with mental illness as goulish, halloween characters full of darkness, dangerous and to be feared and despised and dis-intergrated. I see from the comments people living with the various disorders are either really committing to them being an accurate depiction for them or saying 'it's nothing like that" - I am not adverse to the dark AND I think the Ink IS powerful - but it does not describe my lived experience... of two of these diagnoses. It is well known tha mania is a state of hyper connectivity to ideas, thoughts nature, ideas, words, schemas, patterns AND most people in manic highs pretty well wants to involve other people to come on board the fast train. I find these images repellant and want to claim some ground back from them. There is ALWAYS a third face - and space in our times that is something more than the duality, the pain, the harm and hurt. We are people - not monsters.

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Emily Pode 9 years ago

We are not the monsters, but the illnesses can be

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Wendy Lewis 9 years ago

These are simply brilliant.

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En H. Cavalier 9 years ago

I do not know what to say because I always wanted to draw these worlds feelings but I did not know how to make them. This artist is siper because with her designs tells a lot of things and feelings. . . I like how to draw because it is similar to how I will like to learn to draw.-/ Non so cosa dire, perché ho sempre voluto disegnare questi mondi sentimenti, ma non sapevo come farli. Questo artista è super perché con i suoi disegni racconta un sacco di cose e dei sentimenti. . . Mi piace come disegnare perché è simile a come mi piacerebbe imparare a disegnare.

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Tanthalas Meyer 9 years ago

I think it's good artwork in and of itself but terrible for getting your point across on your idea of mental illness and the people who have it. If an artist needs people with the disorders to be the majority of people who think their art is a 100% accurate depiction of it, then they're not a very good artist.

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Mischa Perry 9 years ago

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Camille Rynd 9 years ago

I want a print of all of them. How can I arrange a purchase?

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Betty Deleon 9 years ago

Amazingly accurate and impelling art. Having people in my life who have some of these disorders, and having worked in mental health, I'm in awe of someone taking on the task. We need this. Art explains more than words can say.

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Clare Hastings 9 years ago

Amazing. Will these be available for purchase at any time?

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Clare Hastings 9 years ago

Amazing. Will these be available for purchase at any point?

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Clare Hastings 9 years ago

Amazing. Will these be available to purchase at any point?

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Ivonne Pérez 9 years ago

Your art is amazingly beautiful

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YeLonda Gatewood 9 years ago

I wonder if he could put these in a coffee table book with the definitions of the diseases and his motivation. I think that these are amazingly accurate. I would definitely buy that book.

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Debra Murphy 9 years ago

Your work is amazing. <3

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Angela Torres 9 years ago

How do I contact the artist for permission to tattoo!?!

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Trina Keeler 9 years ago

Very very well done #mentalhealthawareness

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Jirka Haus 9 years ago

Nice

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Petra Vd Winkel 9 years ago

it is amazing art,great. Like every one has problems, but life is so much different with a disorder.

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Nathasja Bons 9 years ago

I started crying because of the accuracy

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August Webb 9 years ago

hey im doing a report on anxiety and the multiple disorders that go along in it, is it okay if I were to use some of these, as long as I cite them?

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Jubilee Lang 9 years ago

Does anyone know if the artist is selling copies of these? I'm diagnosed with five of those, and honestly as disturbing as some people think they are I find them hauntingly beautiful and so very fitting of how my I feel most days. Especially the PTSD and Social Anxiety.

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Marigen Beltran 9 years ago

I have Generalized anxiety disorder, I want to see that drawing :-)

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Paloma Aroli 9 years ago

Hello, I really liked your artwork. However, I am having trouble understanding the one with autism. Could you please help me understandt it???

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Quinn Kit 9 years ago

A lot of people with autism (myself included) feel like their brain has so much to say, so many thoughts to express, but their mouth can't put it out. Often my mind keeps jabbing at me wanting me to express what I mean, but my words will come out wrong and I won't be able to verbalize what I'm thinking, because in reality my thoughts are so many at once, and rarely 'coherent' enough to put straight into words.

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Ian Stratton 9 years ago

You should do one with ADHD. I was diagnosed after my teachers said they couldn't "control" me. I refuse to take meds because I manage it very well on my own. But I've noticed many children have been diagnosed with this and the meds they take turn them into zombies. I am curious what your interpretation of this is. You pretty much nailed everything else!

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Ian Stratton 9 years ago

Should do one on ADHD. I was diagnosed with it, but refuse to take meds for it. I manage it very well on my own. I like to think I just have a hyperactive brain. But i see many children getting diagnosed with this and the meds they take turn them into zombies.. I would love to see your interpretation of this, you pretty much nailed everything else.

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Kalina Merriam 9 years ago

Amazing! Are you able to do one for panic disorder?

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Moriah Smith 9 years ago

What about ADD!? These are amazing and I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the exact feeling to be sprawled out in a sketch

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Jen Camp 9 years ago

Stunning work. I didn't even know some of these disorders existed. I enjoyed looking at them...even though they saddened me only for the simple fact that so many of us are affected by these diseases and actually feel this type of pain that you have beautifully illustrated. Thank you for showing us your work. God bless you

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Paige Cann 9 years ago

Loved your art work! You should do some more like epilepsy, cancer and ect.

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John Mohl 9 years ago

Will you sell prints of this? There are many therapists, teachers of psychology (me), and those who are struggle with these who may want one!

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Jennifer Gambaccini 9 years ago

Wow, these are powerful!

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Shane Carlaw 9 years ago

Brilliant work, bringing these illnesses out of the shadows of their stigmas and shedding light and hope to all who suffer through them , thinking they are alone.

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Judy Ripley 9 years ago

I will have to come back again. My granddaughter had drawings here. I am A VERY PROUD GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Amber Massaglia 9 years ago

Thank you for your brave and accurate portrayals of mental illness. There are so many stereotypes that go with it and this was beautifully illustrated. If you do a generalized anxiety I hope to purchase it. Thank you!

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Joel TKO 9 years ago

If I could suggest one you missed: Depersonalization Disorder. It is where you experience life in the 3rd person and cannot feel connected to your existence. Some drug abuse from my past caused it in me. I see a neuropsychiatrist for it now.

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Jennie Smith 9 years ago

Please could you draw General anxiety disorder or the nightmare of coming off SSRI's xxx

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Karine Desenfant 9 years ago

Hi, gréât work, do you sell it?

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Jennie Smith 9 years ago

Please can you draw general anxiety disorder or the nightmare of coming off SSRI's xxx

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Carter Jelacic 9 years ago

These are amazing. I would like to have one of them Tattoed on me

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Gina Fennell 9 years ago

If I could draw, I'd draw my depression crying, in the fetal position and chained to my house, surrounded by food containers. But I can't draw.

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Dragon Girl 9 years ago

For me this is what stigma looks like. When people see this it's no wonder they are scared of the mentally ill, insecure around them or want them to be locked away. They may say "it's not you it's the illness the real you that which is like we want it to be" but obviously you cannot be separated from the "thing". I don't think of myself as a monster or possesed by one. I see myself as someone who feels and expriences things everyone feels or experieces but more intensely in certain situations. But like everyone else I do not feel the same all the time nor does anne experince the same states of mind all the time.

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Michelle Abrahmz 9 years ago

I find these grotesque. It would seem people think mental illness must always be a horrible and traumatising experience. The worst part is the opinions and unacceptance by people who have no experience but plenty of judgement. Autism isn't even a mental health issue, so including that shows some ignorance and bias.

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Quinn Kit 9 years ago

Hey. Person on the autism spectrum here. To me, this is incredibly accurate. This isn't saying that mental health is always a traumatising and horrible thing, but it's illustrating how they certainly can be. You won't meet a depressed person saying their illness is beautiful and nice. You won't meet a person with Borderline Personality Disorder saying it has never felt horrible. And I don't wish to vouch for anyone on the autism spectrum, but autism is alienating. To me, it's feeling like your mind has a lot to say but your mouth won't co-operate. It's hearing people day in and day out telling you you might be misunderstanding. Because your brain doesn't work the way others do. Autism isn't an illness, but don't you dare tell me no one has ever felt pained or scared from any of these illnesses. They're grotesque because having an illness or disorder that isolates you feels terrible, at times. I can rise above my illnesses. That does not mean I haven't felt them push me down.

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Bethany Stewart 9 years ago

Autism may not be a mental health disorder in itself but it very often comes with its own mental health issues. Mental health problems are not beautiful. Mental health issues are not nice. Mental health issues are grotesque and hideous and they tear people apart. So I believe these drawings are perfect. They evoke a response and that's what we need. Mental health issues can't stay in the shadows anymore! No they are not always as debilitating as these images make you seem but for some they are. Don't beautify mental health problems or people won't take them seriously.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

Hello, Psychology student with ASD here. Autism is indeed a mental health issue. Why do you think there are thousands of people with ASD taking medication? There are some imbalances at work. Autism NEVER goes away. There's no cure, and there never will be one. All we can do is cope and memorize speech patterns and social cues and what words are able to be used to convey who knows how many different emotions. Social cues, speech patterns, sarcasm, and tone are the worst for me. I could go on all day, but you don't need much more than what Quinn has told you.

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Beth Taccia 8 years ago

Autism is by definition a Developmental Issue. A Developmental Issue is by definition a group of psychiatric conditions originating in childhood. Next!

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Dawn Campbell 9 years ago

Absolutely brilliant. Would have loved to have seen a piece for addiction....

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Molly 9 years ago

Im new to this panda site and signed up bc of your amazing artwork! Do you have any of these drawings for sale? Brillant!

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Joy Davies 9 years ago

Fantastic way to express these conditions. Thank you for opening the door, the heart, and the mind to create a sense of compassion, empathy, and understanding. I have spent my life working with children with emotional handicaps and it is such a hard road. The real monsters are the administrators who think teachers can cure everything with consistent punishment and overly testing them on academics.

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Jason Saldaña 9 years ago

Please don't forget to add ADD or ADHD, because that is a HUGE disorder that is often accompanied with other ones featured above, and affects millions of people.

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Diya Chakraborty 9 years ago

Dear Artist, you must have gone through some really thick stuff to be able to purge on paper in this way. You are really strong. Kudos. Thank you.

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Patty Lovins McAnnally 9 years ago

incredible

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Ginaira Aparicio 9 years ago

Anxiety?

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Peet IstnichtFääir 9 years ago

Can i have posters?

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Svetlana Lapsansky 9 years ago

I miss Narcissism!

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Mollie Carl 9 years ago

favulous

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Elizabeth Kooijman 9 years ago

Brilliant art work. But I mist the one for migraine I'm very curious about his one.

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Nicole McFarlane 9 years ago

The illustrations are much too laden with assumptions that are fatalistic, depicting life with mental illness as inherently grim.

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Liam Pierce 9 years ago

Your art is absolutely stunning

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Dutty Bone 9 years ago

what about dyspraxia?

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Natallie Lucille Marie Gamble 9 years ago

What a dark beautiful pictorial description. As for anxiety though, there are more than social anxiety... maybe something eating or pulling your heart down. But amazing art all in all!

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Shannon Wheeler 9 years ago

These are haunting, yet frighteningly accurate images of these horrific illnesses. It's about time that mental illness is getting the attention it's needed for so long, unfortunately too late for some. My daughter struggles with a few of these and holds resentment towards me for having her on medication as a child. She believes it set her brain and body up for the need to have them forever. I don't think one medication is enough for bipolar, usually, but she swears she will only be on one medication or she will be able to handle zero medications. This makes me sad... I wish I could organize balance the seratonin and reasoning in her beautiful brain. Thank you for these. It lets me know we are not alone.

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Elham Magulah 9 years ago

Artistic ♥

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Lisa Smith 9 years ago

Are any of these available as a print, by any chance? I feel like I need the Autism Spectrum on my wall :(

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Deanna Szuter 9 years ago

Totally amazing work. Your interpretations are incredible.

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Tara Tollefson 9 years ago

Can you do one for people with GAD aka General Anxiety Disorder ?

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Franzie Kah 9 years ago

This is amazing. WIll there be more? Like one for every day of october? Please.

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Tanya Warbelton 9 years ago

Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for these. I was actually a little bummed when I came to the end. I truly hope you challenge yourself farther and take on the oh so many more illnesses out there! Excited to see more of your work! You give us a voice through your art. Thank you.

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Lee-Marie Brough 9 years ago

These are all truly beautiful in a dark, macabre way. I would love to see your illustrations of 'Histrionic personality disorder'. I have had this disorder since my mid teens and seeing it from an outsiders art would be incredible.

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Pinky Franklin 9 years ago

Wish they had done panic Foster or anxiety as well, s**t even perpetual migraines.

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Ezel Deren B 9 years ago

Amazing. I saved photos. All them

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Katt Strophic 9 years ago

These are freaking incredible!

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Pavel Mamontov 9 years ago

These are brilliant, Shawn! Perhaps when you have time, if I may ask you to do an illustration of DID or Dissociative identity disorder? Would love to see it and someone I care deeply for has it and she would love your style. Thank you in advance <3

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Taylor Beckenbach 9 years ago

These images really hit me where I wasn't expecting. Thank you so much for creating these, they're absolutely beautiful. I'm not sure how you managed to do it, but you were able to create something that so deeply describes what many people that live their whole lives trying to explain. Thank you.

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Ernest Hawkes 9 years ago

Shawn, I work in Mental Health and just want to say that your artwork is fantastic. The depictions tell a lot. Really good work.

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Elizabeth Rodriguez 9 years ago

I didn't see anxiety/panic attacks... like the anxiety I have is not just social.. anything can trigger it .. I feel like I'm scared of every thing and I think of the worst things possible and I can't control it and I start to panic/shake ... 😔

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Lior Hamel Sever 9 years ago

Amazing work!

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Astrid Sobrevilla 9 years ago

this is really art =)

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Angela Lagos 9 years ago

Wow

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Alusair Alustriel 9 years ago

Stunning. Absuolutely fabulous artwork, with a huge impact. I'm really impressed with those.

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n0fucks 9 years ago

I am not suffering for any of these disorders. But this makes me cry..

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Michelle Carlson 9 years ago

My favorite drawings. Good job

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Nick Tomkin 9 years ago

Even when it would have been easy, ADHD gets zero respect. Easily way more known than half of these.

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Arty 9 years ago

wow...when you read Bored Panda's comments on such post, it's like 90% of the planet (or at least of Bored Panda members) have mental illness! :s Maybe (just maybe), it's just disparity from the "norm" (that doesn't really exist) and not illness...and you have to live with been different from others

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Mahmud Hossain Shanto 9 years ago

Brilliant work :-)

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Isa Kramer 9 years ago

Impresionantes tus dibujos. Deberías hacer un calendario, yo como estudiante de psicología que soy, lo compraría !!! Sigue así ♥

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Ty Tranter 9 years ago

Wow

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Spinaap 9 years ago

Truly amazing work. Thanks for the maker, thanks you!

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Average Jo 9 years ago

What about addiction?

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Olf Hrzg 9 years ago

That's an amazing work. Go look for you on instagram.

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Stavros Modestou 9 years ago

i looove your work

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Andi G 9 years ago

Can I request ADHD? I love your work!

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Helen Wells 9 years ago

Can't wait to see the others you do. 13 more to go. Looking forward to seeing ADHD..

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Master Markus 9 years ago

If I have one overall critique it's that maybe I would remove the "headings", or, even better incorporate them into the world more, give them a bit more expression. I would probably get rid of the #inktober thing entirely, and just put that in an introduction to the collection, but I suppose the purpose of the repeated labeling is in case people shared just one of the pictures rather than all of them.

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Sanajah Rodriguez 9 years ago

Brilliant art work

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Amy Cummings 9 years ago

No shout out to epilepsy? There are 1 in 26 of us diagnosed (and suffering) in their lifetime. Where's everyone hiding?

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KD Frederick 9 years ago

Maybe because epilepsy is not a mental illness and these drawings are for mental illnesses specifically.

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Shannon Prestegard 9 years ago

Absolutely amazing drawing to describe these illnesses!

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Hali Keambiroiro 9 years ago

I saw the one for PTSD and couldn't stop the tears. That is the most accurate representation of what I'm dealing with.

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Bernardina Rádi 9 years ago

I can't understand the last one. Why there is a lot of holy cross?

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Linda L Moore 9 years ago

Really hit a nerve!

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Sakkara Beirre 9 years ago

I think these could help non sufferers to understand more what life is like to sufferers. I think this artist did a great job at expressing!

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Erin McGill 9 years ago

Scary how much i relate

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Mike Smith 9 years ago

I could look at a book like that all day a little more work and that could be published

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Robert Wong 9 years ago

This artist amazes me, I wouldn't mind letting them ink my bedroom wall with mine (severe depression).

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Keira Way 9 years ago

this reminds me of Jamie Hewlett's work, from Tank Girl and Gorillaz.

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Emanuel Tremens 9 years ago

All catched in mind palace in zoo. Section: Introspektrals. What keeps them locked? It is your unfree will.

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Alix Andra 9 years ago

Wow, thank you so much for sharing these. They are so interesting and engaging. I have worked in mental health. If a person identifies with such an image it could prove truly invaluable for explaining their experience to others.

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Mark Crummay 9 years ago

Fantastic work

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Seth Gecko 9 years ago

Those are so great;an eerie insight to how it feels to have social anxiety.

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Kahlo Smith 9 years ago

I think the comments on every piece are a testament to how well this artist manages to capture the sometimes overwhelming struggle of living with these illnesses- it's a powerful tribute.

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Camila Campos Fuentes 9 years ago

Wow really touching. All my love to people suffering from any kind of mental dissorder.

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Sasha Neuville 9 years ago

Really cool drawings Speaks to me so much..

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Just a Purpler 9 years ago

Can I make a request?? A disorder I have, and is very rare, is called Munchausen's (Not the by proxy one though). I would really appreciate if you could illustrate it :3 Because it's so rare, I often go around feeling so lonely and hurt that no one else ever seems to possibly know my pain, or even want to get to know it...

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Nora Elisabeth 9 years ago

Wow, all thumbs up. The drawings are amazing, and so spot on. So grateful to be (almost) healthy.

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Averil Aplin 9 years ago

I have ptsd and a couple of others... I thought they were part of the ptsd its self?

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Cris Winchester 9 years ago

there are many subtypes for each disorder (sometimes symptoms of a disorder are individual disorders themselves ) and i've noticed specific subtypes here have their own illustrations, like paranoid schizphrenia, depersonalization ( type of dissociation disorder), social anxiety and etc

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LeAnna Lukas 9 years ago

I need one for me too, anxiety and panic disorder, one that would work would be a choking or smothering sensation, you fell like your having a heart attack.

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K 9 years ago

Anxiety, I have a certain relationship with it, even tho it's the worst thing in my life, I kinda embrace it and it makes me feel special.

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Laura Mihaela 9 years ago

Extraordinary art work! Amazing!

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Vikram Brugger 9 years ago

Screw mental illnesses! Mental illnesses are many times never detected and are people are called crazy for no reason, we should stand against such such individuals and spread awareness of mental illnesses

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Ehsan Es 9 years ago

Where is the "label-every-disorder" disorder? Anyway, these are some incredible work!

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Kirsten Lee 9 years ago

That's what depression actually feels like

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ΣΚΡΟΥΤΖ ΜΑΚ ΝΤΑΚ 9 years ago

I love this...

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Kirsten Preston 9 years ago

Fantastic work, wow!

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Jessica-lee Berger 9 years ago

Those images are so beautiful, I can totally relate. Please draw one for eating disorder!

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Imani Allen 9 years ago

That s**t was cool!

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Pi... 9 years ago

Very interesting. Made me look up so many... I learnt something new coz of these...

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kirsty sch 9 years ago

love the concept ! well done :D, I got goose bumps

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Gee Gee 9 years ago

Some really great work here, keep it up! Love the style

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Jamal W 9 years ago

These are incredible!

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Amy Cummings 9 years ago

November is National Epilepsy Awareness month 💜

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Amy Cummings 9 years ago

Epilepsy??

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Lu Johnson 8 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness so I don't know why its even on here. Autism is part of me and that image is really offensive to me.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

I also have Autism. It isn't an illness. It's a disorder.

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Sian Buckley-Humphries 8 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness!! What the he'll...

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

I have autism. And you have a low intelligence! :)

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Joseph Gardner 9 years ago

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Nikki Lewis 9 years ago

I feel your comment is inappropriate. Mental illness is as real as any physical illness.

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Cris Winchester 9 years ago

those are the names of the actual disorders though...

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Loki 9 years ago

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Karl Draper-Firth 9 years ago

What are you talking about? Nowhere does it say that the artist has experienced all / any of these!! Myself being a sufferer of depression and anxiety find these fantastic and a great insight into what people go through (for those who can't relate). Plus, I learnt a lot about other illnesses. Don't be so narrow minded.

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Fiona Messenger 9 years ago

In what way has he minimalised them?! I think if anything he's drawn attention to them in a highly creative and shocking way. More people need to be "shocked" into realising that mental illness IS real and IS illness, just because it's something they can't see, they must be faking it. And given that so many people on here are saying "you nailed it" you are talking rubbish when you say he doesn't understand.

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Daria B 9 years ago

So... A healthy doctor can never understand their patients? We're doomed.

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Joanne Palmer 9 years ago

Brilliant art work & building great awarness for this hidden yet crippling mental disorders <3

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James Barrow 8 years ago

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NeatAndNice 9 years ago

I miss mine. Panic disorder. And hypochondria.

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Mihaela Šagadin 9 years ago

Yep, social anxiety and agoraphobia are linked to it, but still misses general anxiety disorder with panic attacks, by which I mean we're not necessarily having it in social situations.

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Michalis Spastris 8 years ago

Hypochondria relates to OCD above, maybe

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Charlie Jemison 9 years ago

This is an ongoing series, October isnt over yet

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Ewa Lubuśka-Cekus 9 years ago

And all of them may link to mine: selective mutism.

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Jaye Marsh 9 years ago

Still a few more days to go...

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iamthegrayone 9 years ago

Haunting and amazing images.

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Dee Frame 9 years ago

I agree with "iamthegrayone"

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Alex Laroche 9 years ago

I'm a student in psychology, and your drawing really fit with all the description that we can see in class. That's an amazing work !

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Max Olsen 8 years ago

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Guinevere 9 years ago

One thing is clear to me - there is nothing quite as scary as the human mind!

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Emily Pode 9 years ago

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Lauren Burk 8 years ago

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Sarah Lund 9 years ago

Wow! How can I get a copy? x

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Angharad Martin 9 years ago

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Jesse Wiatrak 8 years ago

Isn't that ADHD?

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Angela Kadrovach 9 years ago

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Emily Pode 9 years ago

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Destiney Anderson 8 years ago

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LaNise Essick 9 years ago

These are insanely dope!!! How can I get in contact with the artist?!

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Roxenne Montesclaros 9 years ago

He's on Facebook, his page is Shawn Cross - Artist

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Miki Geiger 8 years ago

Heartbreaking yet incredibly accurate portrayals. Very well done!

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Deanna Dalton 9 years ago

I find these pieces valid and beautiful. I am curious as to the process of creating of this art.

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nero ham 9 years ago

Can you make one for skitzoaffective disorder

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Nicole Romero 9 years ago

Absolutely amazing! Very well done, you're EXTREMELY talented!

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Andrew Perotti 9 years ago

Well done I really enjoyed passing by really would like to see what you could do with dyslexia

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Monica Ribau 9 years ago

Brilliant work congratulations

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Lex Lemon 9 years ago

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Rafi'ulfath Riwansia 9 years ago

everytime I see post that I don't understand but somehow get so many viewer or upvotes I always assume it must contain some secret language or so. :|

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Notchimine Mette 9 years ago

This has been enlightening. The pictures reminds me of that game "Limbo".

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Ditto 8 years ago

Me too.

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Alexa Gori 1 year ago

It should be placed in psychology textbooks as an illustration.

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Dorian Reeves 2 years ago

As an autistic person the autism one is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen idk why

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Gay child 2 years ago

Kind of sad they didn’t do one about adhd. But other than that these really depict well

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Rivka Strom 4 years ago

I want to share your work on my podcast

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Recipe Dragon 6 years ago

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Kat Haze 6 years ago

Brilliant depictions of these disorders. Talent!

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Laldinthara Khiangte 7 years ago

Good thing I don't suffer from any of these. Or...DO I? No...What am I thinking?

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SriGanesh.Ninja 8 years ago

These drawings are far more creepier that the mental disorder

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Aiyana Cronkrite 8 years ago

I don't understand the BPD picture, I suffer from BPD, but for some reason I don't understand what is happening and why it's happening...in the picture I mean

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Hannah Lawrence 8 years ago

I have PTSD, and immediately cried upon seeing your illustration on it. It's painfully accurate and I appreciate the artwork as well as bringing awareness to people who may not understand.

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Michael Wise 8 years ago

Don't understand all the crosses for Schizophrenia. Don't know how they are tied to the disorder, please someone try to elaborate and explain to me why they might be there

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Phillip McCordall 8 years ago

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Anna Perry 8 years ago

What are these drawings meant to do?

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Loza Rose 8 years ago

This is amazing. I was hoping so much for an ODD one.

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Lorand Kiss-Istok 8 years ago

wow

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Emma Karlsson Öström 8 years ago

Absolutely amazing pictures. I would love to order one of the pictures. Is there any way you can do it? / Emma

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Napalm Philus 8 years ago

I wish you would do one about OCPD, ADHD or Alexithymia. I suffer from these three. :(

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Gina Richards 8 years ago

Spot on for bipolar! Very talented.

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Emily Pearce 8 years ago

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Jenny Bruce 8 years ago

I do think the artwork is really good but OCD isn't just about cleaning as I have OCD and I'm not obsessed with cleaning and I don't think clean clean clean all the time. Jennifer xx

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Beth Taccia 8 years ago

Very amazing art thank you

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Kei Kei 8 years ago

This is really amazing.

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Justin Peterson 8 years ago

Absolutely fantastic. Actually gave me goose bumps because of how accurate some of these feel for me.

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Brandy Bennett Gibbs 8 years ago

Wow! Are any for sale?

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Gabriel Cunha Bezerra 8 years ago

Very good

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Victoria Harper 8 years ago

This is amazing! Maybe you could do one for Body dysmorphic disorder, I guess you get requests all the time xx

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Christel Capili Acierto 8 years ago

Great art works perfrct for Tim Burton's production ㅋㅋㅋ

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Helen Vicary 8 years ago

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Alexus Geier 8 years ago

Great thing to look at if you wanna learn about this kinda stuff but have a artist soul

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Mani Singh 8 years ago

http://recipeshindimein.com

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Michelle Rakestraw 8 years ago

lovedloved them all a

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Mina Blandon 8 years ago

These drawing are beautiful

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Heather Mccoig 8 years ago

Please, please, please do ADD and/or ADHD

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Luisa Bozzay 8 years ago

A couple are missing, but still hauntingly beautiful

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Katerina Pol 8 years ago

I wish the artist or someone else could comment on the "#5 bipolar disorder" drawing's symbols...

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Brianna Evans 8 years ago

Forgot one .... adhd

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Dee Frame 9 years ago

I am not lazy and did post and did get this response!!!!!! Hey Dee Frame, Woohoo! Your comment "I agree with "iamthegrayone" " has got its first upvote.

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Angela Kadrovach 9 years ago

I would like to see ADHD. Constantly being bombarded with everything around you and not being able to filter things out.

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Just a Purpler 9 years ago

So does this mean you stopped after the 18? Wish I could see some more...

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Laura Bayird 9 years ago

Would have been interested in the artists take on Post Partum Depression, or worse, Post Partum Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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Bijou Po 9 years ago

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Emily Pode 9 years ago

We are not the monsters, but the illnesses can be

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Wendy Lewis 9 years ago

These are simply brilliant.

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En H. Cavalier 9 years ago

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Tanthalas Meyer 9 years ago

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Mischa Perry 9 years ago

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Camille Rynd 9 years ago

I want a print of all of them. How can I arrange a purchase?

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Betty Deleon 9 years ago

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Clare Hastings 9 years ago

Amazing. Will these be available for purchase at any time?

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Clare Hastings 9 years ago

Amazing. Will these be available for purchase at any point?

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Clare Hastings 9 years ago

Amazing. Will these be available to purchase at any point?

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Ivonne Pérez 9 years ago

Your art is amazingly beautiful

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YeLonda Gatewood 9 years ago

I wonder if he could put these in a coffee table book with the definitions of the diseases and his motivation. I think that these are amazingly accurate. I would definitely buy that book.

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Debra Murphy 9 years ago

Your work is amazing. <3

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Angela Torres 9 years ago

How do I contact the artist for permission to tattoo!?!

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Trina Keeler 9 years ago

Very very well done #mentalhealthawareness

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Jirka Haus 9 years ago

Nice

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Petra Vd Winkel 9 years ago

it is amazing art,great. Like every one has problems, but life is so much different with a disorder.

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Nathasja Bons 9 years ago

I started crying because of the accuracy

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August Webb 9 years ago

hey im doing a report on anxiety and the multiple disorders that go along in it, is it okay if I were to use some of these, as long as I cite them?

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Jubilee Lang 9 years ago

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Marigen Beltran 9 years ago

I have Generalized anxiety disorder, I want to see that drawing :-)

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Paloma Aroli 9 years ago

Hello, I really liked your artwork. However, I am having trouble understanding the one with autism. Could you please help me understandt it???

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Quinn Kit 9 years ago

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Ian Stratton 9 years ago

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Ian Stratton 9 years ago

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Kalina Merriam 9 years ago

Amazing! Are you able to do one for panic disorder?

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Moriah Smith 9 years ago

What about ADD!? These are amazing and I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the exact feeling to be sprawled out in a sketch

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Jen Camp 9 years ago

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Paige Cann 9 years ago

Loved your art work! You should do some more like epilepsy, cancer and ect.

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John Mohl 9 years ago

Will you sell prints of this? There are many therapists, teachers of psychology (me), and those who are struggle with these who may want one!

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Jennifer Gambaccini 9 years ago

Wow, these are powerful!

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Shane Carlaw 9 years ago

Brilliant work, bringing these illnesses out of the shadows of their stigmas and shedding light and hope to all who suffer through them , thinking they are alone.

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Judy Ripley 9 years ago

I will have to come back again. My granddaughter had drawings here. I am A VERY PROUD GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Amber Massaglia 9 years ago

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Joel TKO 9 years ago

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Jennie Smith 9 years ago

Please could you draw General anxiety disorder or the nightmare of coming off SSRI's xxx

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Karine Desenfant 9 years ago

Hi, gréât work, do you sell it?

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Jennie Smith 9 years ago

Please can you draw general anxiety disorder or the nightmare of coming off SSRI's xxx

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Carter Jelacic 9 years ago

These are amazing. I would like to have one of them Tattoed on me

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Gina Fennell 9 years ago

If I could draw, I'd draw my depression crying, in the fetal position and chained to my house, surrounded by food containers. But I can't draw.

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Dragon Girl 9 years ago

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Michelle Abrahmz 9 years ago

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Quinn Kit 9 years ago

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Bethany Stewart 9 years ago

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

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Beth Taccia 8 years ago

Autism is by definition a Developmental Issue. A Developmental Issue is by definition a group of psychiatric conditions originating in childhood. Next!

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Dawn Campbell 9 years ago

Absolutely brilliant. Would have loved to have seen a piece for addiction....

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Molly 9 years ago

Im new to this panda site and signed up bc of your amazing artwork! Do you have any of these drawings for sale? Brillant!

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Joy Davies 9 years ago

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Jason Saldaña 9 years ago

Please don't forget to add ADD or ADHD, because that is a HUGE disorder that is often accompanied with other ones featured above, and affects millions of people.

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Diya Chakraborty 9 years ago

Dear Artist, you must have gone through some really thick stuff to be able to purge on paper in this way. You are really strong. Kudos. Thank you.

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Patty Lovins McAnnally 9 years ago

incredible

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Ginaira Aparicio 9 years ago

Anxiety?

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Peet IstnichtFääir 9 years ago

Can i have posters?

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Svetlana Lapsansky 9 years ago

I miss Narcissism!

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Mollie Carl 9 years ago

favulous

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Elizabeth Kooijman 9 years ago

Brilliant art work. But I mist the one for migraine I'm very curious about his one.

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Nicole McFarlane 9 years ago

The illustrations are much too laden with assumptions that are fatalistic, depicting life with mental illness as inherently grim.

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Liam Pierce 9 years ago

Your art is absolutely stunning

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Dutty Bone 9 years ago

what about dyspraxia?

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Natallie Lucille Marie Gamble 9 years ago

What a dark beautiful pictorial description. As for anxiety though, there are more than social anxiety... maybe something eating or pulling your heart down. But amazing art all in all!

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Shannon Wheeler 9 years ago

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Elham Magulah 9 years ago

Artistic ♥

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Lisa Smith 9 years ago

Are any of these available as a print, by any chance? I feel like I need the Autism Spectrum on my wall :(

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Deanna Szuter 9 years ago

Totally amazing work. Your interpretations are incredible.

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Tara Tollefson 9 years ago

Can you do one for people with GAD aka General Anxiety Disorder ?

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Franzie Kah 9 years ago

This is amazing. WIll there be more? Like one for every day of october? Please.

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Tanya Warbelton 9 years ago

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Lee-Marie Brough 9 years ago

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Pinky Franklin 9 years ago

Wish they had done panic Foster or anxiety as well, s**t even perpetual migraines.

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Ezel Deren B 9 years ago

Amazing. I saved photos. All them

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Katt Strophic 9 years ago

These are freaking incredible!

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Pavel Mamontov 9 years ago

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Taylor Beckenbach 9 years ago

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Ernest Hawkes 9 years ago

Shawn, I work in Mental Health and just want to say that your artwork is fantastic. The depictions tell a lot. Really good work.

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Elizabeth Rodriguez 9 years ago

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Lior Hamel Sever 9 years ago

Amazing work!

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Astrid Sobrevilla 9 years ago

this is really art =)

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Angela Lagos 9 years ago

Wow

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Alusair Alustriel 9 years ago

Stunning. Absuolutely fabulous artwork, with a huge impact. I'm really impressed with those.

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n0fucks 9 years ago

I am not suffering for any of these disorders. But this makes me cry..

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Michelle Carlson 9 years ago

My favorite drawings. Good job

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Nick Tomkin 9 years ago

Even when it would have been easy, ADHD gets zero respect. Easily way more known than half of these.

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Arty 9 years ago

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Mahmud Hossain Shanto 9 years ago

Brilliant work :-)

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Isa Kramer 9 years ago

Impresionantes tus dibujos. Deberías hacer un calendario, yo como estudiante de psicología que soy, lo compraría !!! Sigue así ♥

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Ty Tranter 9 years ago

Wow

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Spinaap 9 years ago

Truly amazing work. Thanks for the maker, thanks you!

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Average Jo 9 years ago

What about addiction?

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Olf Hrzg 9 years ago

That's an amazing work. Go look for you on instagram.

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Stavros Modestou 9 years ago

i looove your work

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Andi G 9 years ago

Can I request ADHD? I love your work!

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Helen Wells 9 years ago

Can't wait to see the others you do. 13 more to go. Looking forward to seeing ADHD..

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Master Markus 9 years ago

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Sanajah Rodriguez 9 years ago

Brilliant art work

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Amy Cummings 9 years ago

No shout out to epilepsy? There are 1 in 26 of us diagnosed (and suffering) in their lifetime. Where's everyone hiding?

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KD Frederick 9 years ago

Maybe because epilepsy is not a mental illness and these drawings are for mental illnesses specifically.

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Shannon Prestegard 9 years ago

Absolutely amazing drawing to describe these illnesses!

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Hali Keambiroiro 9 years ago

I saw the one for PTSD and couldn't stop the tears. That is the most accurate representation of what I'm dealing with.

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Bernardina Rádi 9 years ago

I can't understand the last one. Why there is a lot of holy cross?

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Linda L Moore 9 years ago

Really hit a nerve!

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Sakkara Beirre 9 years ago

I think these could help non sufferers to understand more what life is like to sufferers. I think this artist did a great job at expressing!

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Erin McGill 9 years ago

Scary how much i relate

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Mike Smith 9 years ago

I could look at a book like that all day a little more work and that could be published

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Robert Wong 9 years ago

This artist amazes me, I wouldn't mind letting them ink my bedroom wall with mine (severe depression).

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Keira Way 9 years ago

this reminds me of Jamie Hewlett's work, from Tank Girl and Gorillaz.

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Emanuel Tremens 9 years ago

All catched in mind palace in zoo. Section: Introspektrals. What keeps them locked? It is your unfree will.

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Alix Andra 9 years ago

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Mark Crummay 9 years ago

Fantastic work

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Seth Gecko 9 years ago

Those are so great;an eerie insight to how it feels to have social anxiety.

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Kahlo Smith 9 years ago

I think the comments on every piece are a testament to how well this artist manages to capture the sometimes overwhelming struggle of living with these illnesses- it's a powerful tribute.

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Camila Campos Fuentes 9 years ago

Wow really touching. All my love to people suffering from any kind of mental dissorder.

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Sasha Neuville 9 years ago

Really cool drawings Speaks to me so much..

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Just a Purpler 9 years ago

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Nora Elisabeth 9 years ago

Wow, all thumbs up. The drawings are amazing, and so spot on. So grateful to be (almost) healthy.

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Averil Aplin 9 years ago

I have ptsd and a couple of others... I thought they were part of the ptsd its self?

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Cris Winchester 9 years ago

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LeAnna Lukas 9 years ago

I need one for me too, anxiety and panic disorder, one that would work would be a choking or smothering sensation, you fell like your having a heart attack.

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K 9 years ago

Anxiety, I have a certain relationship with it, even tho it's the worst thing in my life, I kinda embrace it and it makes me feel special.

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Laura Mihaela 9 years ago

Extraordinary art work! Amazing!

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Vikram Brugger 9 years ago

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Ehsan Es 9 years ago

Where is the "label-every-disorder" disorder? Anyway, these are some incredible work!

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Kirsten Lee 9 years ago

That's what depression actually feels like

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ΣΚΡΟΥΤΖ ΜΑΚ ΝΤΑΚ 9 years ago

I love this...

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Kirsten Preston 9 years ago

Fantastic work, wow!

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Jessica-lee Berger 9 years ago

Those images are so beautiful, I can totally relate. Please draw one for eating disorder!

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Imani Allen 9 years ago

That s**t was cool!

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Pi... 9 years ago

Very interesting. Made me look up so many... I learnt something new coz of these...

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kirsty sch 9 years ago

love the concept ! well done :D, I got goose bumps

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Gee Gee 9 years ago

Some really great work here, keep it up! Love the style

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Jamal W 9 years ago

These are incredible!

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Amy Cummings 9 years ago

November is National Epilepsy Awareness month 💜

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Amy Cummings 9 years ago

Epilepsy??

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Lu Johnson 8 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness so I don't know why its even on here. Autism is part of me and that image is really offensive to me.

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

I also have Autism. It isn't an illness. It's a disorder.

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Sian Buckley-Humphries 8 years ago

Autism is not a mental illness!! What the he'll...

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Regan Kirwin 8 years ago

I have autism. And you have a low intelligence! :)

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Joseph Gardner 9 years ago

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Nikki Lewis 9 years ago

I feel your comment is inappropriate. Mental illness is as real as any physical illness.

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Nawama Green 9 years ago

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Cris Winchester 9 years ago

those are the names of the actual disorders though...

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Loki 9 years ago

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Karl Draper-Firth 9 years ago

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