"Mental Disorder" In Posters By Patrick Smith

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"Mental Disorder" In Posters By Patrick Smith
"Mental Disorder" In Posters By Patrick Smith
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The deceptively simple graphics of Patrick Smith's minimalist posters visualize the symptoms of serious mental disorders such as anorexia, depression, and agoraphobia.

More recently, diseases such as AIDS, alcoholism and even obesity were severely condemned by society and were considered evidence of immorality, weakness and hedonism. Nowadays, people treat them with understanding, at least if they do not want to be branded as inert or heartless. However, if a person suffers from depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or agoraphobia, in most cases he is doomed to face rejection, alienation and fear. Graphic designer Patrick Smith rightly believes that public awareness helps to eliminate prejudice. Conceived as part of the orientation program, the Mental Disorder poster series illustrates six common mental illnesses in an extremely laconic graphic manner.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or obsessive-compulsive disorder … OCD is characterized by the development of obsessive thoughts, memories, movements and actions, as well as a variety of pathological fears (phobias).

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia - fear of open doors, open space. A person diagnosed with agoraphobia is afraid to be in crowded places where there is a possibility of panic, to stand in lines, go shopping, use public transport, etc.

Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa - eating disorder. Patients with AN are characterized by a distorted perception of their physical form and constant anxiety about weight gain, even if this is not actually observed.

Depression

Depression - a mental disorder characterized by a "depressive triad": decreased mood and loss of the ability to experience joy, impaired thinking (negative judgments, pessimistic outlook on what is happening) and motor retardation.

Split personality

Dissociative identity disorder or split personality - a disease in which a person's personality is divided, and it seems that there are several different, successive personalities in the body of one person.

Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy - a disease manifested by daytime bouts of overwhelming drowsiness, attacks of complete or partial loss of muscle tone (cataplexy), disturbed night sleep, and personality changes.

It is worth noting that initially there were seven posters, but after talking with readers of his blog, Patrick removed the poster "Gender Identity Disorder" from the series. The designer apologized for building the design based on the US Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and “did not question any of these definitions, although he probably should have.” “Now, after more thought and research, I think it is wrong to classify transgender as a disease,” said Patrick.

While Patrick Smith's posters are not strictly social ads, they (like projects like IBM's Smart City) are designed to help people and be of real value.

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