Art

I have been reading online articles about mental health in general and sometimes commenting on them and getting involved in discussions.  This type of...

In this ‘identity’ project, we ran a series of workshops exploring different aspects of identity through sculpture, collage, and graphic novel. At the end of each workshop, we gave each group participant the option of sharing their piece with the group and describing both the meaning of the piece and their experience of the creative process.

This piece is called ‘After struggle, follows happiness’. It’s about the potential transformative power of altered states and was created using ink and bleach.

Labels put people in a box of symptoms and encourage diagnostic overshadow and  pathologization of many creative sides of a person.

Editor Note: this post was originally published on our sister site Mad in Sweden and is shared here with permission.  Author note: This story is...