This is an image by Flickr user Julianne Hide. She calls it Clinical Depression, and I think you can see why.
Here’s another called DePrEsSiOn by dcassaa:
This one is Lost by Bewdlerian:
This is by Esther_G, whose stuff is really disturbing. This photo in particular blows me away with how much it resonates for me. It’s called 4:48 psychosis:
liz | 12:26 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Can’t remember how I found dreamhours.com. I find the artist’s montages disturbing. Beautiful, but disturbing.
Two examples:
Precatio
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/SBrooksB/Precatio.jpg
Lake of Ghosts
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/SBrooksB/LakeofGhosts.jpg
To some degree, all images are Rorschach tests. Compare my reaction to “Precatio” (”World without life….in all directions, the void”) to that of an upbeat friend (”I love winter nights! This makes me think of Christmas Eve in a little European town!”).
To see more:
http://www.dreamhours.com/
(Note: I have better luck browsing the site with IE than with Firefox. Once in the picture gallery, run your mouse along the upper right or left edge of the photo for “Next” and “Previous.”)
Those are some powerful photographs. The titles are very apropos. They stir up some deep emotions. Thanks for sharing those with us.
Got some Dark ones for you Liz…
http://gorgesphoto.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Forbodin-87931349
http://gorgesphoto.deviantart.com/art/lostNDdarkness2-01-93246857
http://gorgesphoto.deviantart.com/art/lostNDdarkness2-03-93296151
http://gorgesphoto.deviantart.com/art/lostNDdarkness2-04-JPEG-93299905
I did them specially for an artist working to end the stigma against people with mental illness.
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