Madness In The Shadow. Artistic Reflection Of Madness

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Madness is another part of life that is driven into the Shadow. It is unpleasant and scary to look in this direction. Going beyond the boundaries of the ordinary, familiar, generally accepted, loss of common sense, loss of contact with reality cause rejection and horror, the desire to turn away and not take part in this. Abnormal is dangerous. An encounter with madness reminds us of human vulnerability to the secret nature. I notice that some psychologists, who, it seems, should treat this side of life with greater tolerance and respect, in conversations “among themselves” are not much different from ordinary people, whose speech is replete with expressions “strange”, “abnormal”, “crazy "," Crazy ", etc. The poet prayed with the words:" God forbid me to go crazy … ", the philistine prayer is more aggressive. As for Pushkin, according to P. Rumyantsev, "Boldinskaya Autumn" is a pronounced manic state of the poet, and his famous lines have real fears:

"Pushkin was actually afraid of insanity, because he had many relatives with a mental disorder."

Romantic ideas about the attractiveness of madness have little to do with its real oppressive weight. The romantic image of insanity is the product of an excessive amount of taboos and a load of responsibility; in such a situation, madness seems to be the way out.

A former client of mine, a young man of 22, raised by an overly controlling and demanding mother and grandmother, at the age of 8 sometimes dreamed of the madness he saw in his aunt (mother's sister was schizophrenic). His fantasy of his own madness is a desire for unpunished and irresponsible going beyond the prevailing female norms. In traditional cultures, there was a concept of "sacred madness" - going beyond the norm, a person found himself in contact with forces considered sacred. The institution of jesters and holy fools is evidence that visible insanity can be useful for maintaining honesty and sincerity in situations where fear, deception and the rules of decency dominated.

Meeting with the darkness of the archaic night, a particle of which we all carry in ourselves, scares the question: "How long will your contentment last?"

Photographer Yuyang Liu won the Ian Perry Award for a series of photographs of the lives of people with mental disorders.

15 year old boy with mental disorder. In the photo, he helps his mother light a fire.

Zhen Dong Liang sits at the back of his house and watches his neighbor return from kindergarten. In 2009, he was suspended from school due to aggressive behavior caused by the disease.

Jianwen Pan suffers from schizophrenia and enjoys writing poetry.

9-year-old Tong Xiao and his younger sister Lin guard their food from the pig. Their mother Li (pictured right) stabbed her eldest son with a knife, and 9-year-old Tong Xiao and his younger sister Lin are guarding their food from the pig. Their mother Li (pictured on the right) stabbed her eldest son with a knife and starved the other three children to death.

October is World Mental Health Day (October 10) and Sean Koss decided to devote his work to this topic. He painted a wide variety of mental illnesses and disorders. “If you need help, contact the specialists,” says the artist.

Agoraphobia- fear of open doors, open space; mental disorder, in which there is a fear of crowding, which may require unexpected action; unconscious fear experienced when walking without an escort across a large square or deserted street.

Bipolar disorder- a mental disorder manifested in the form of affective states - manic and depressive, in which there is a rapid change in the symptoms of mania and depression, or symptoms of depression and mania at the same time.

Major depressive disorder(clinical depression) - Unlike ordinary depression, which refers to almost any bad or depressed, sad mood, major depressive disorder is a complex of symptoms. Moreover, MDD may not be accompanied by bad mood, depression, or melancholy at all - the so-called masked depression, somatized depression.

Capgras syndrome(delirium delusion of a negative double) - the patient believes that someone from his environment (husband, wife, parents, etc.) or himself has been replaced by his double.

Depersonalization- disorder of self-perception. With depersonalization, one's own actions are perceived as if from the outside and are accompanied by a feeling of impossibility to control them. The patient complains that he is distant or is “not really here”. For example, sufferers may complain that their feelings or sense of inner life is separate, alien, not their own, or lost, or the feeling that their emotions or movements belong to someone else, or they feel like they are playing on stage.

Dissociative identity disorder(diagnosis is also used multiple personality disorder) is a rare mental disorder in which a person's personality is divided, and it seems that there are several different personalities in the body of one person. At the same time, at certain moments a “switching” occurs in a person, and one personality replaces another.

Anorexia nervosa- an eating disorder characterized by deliberate weight loss caused and / or maintained by the patient himself, in order to lose weight or to prevent excess weight gain. More common in girls. In anorexia, there is a pathological desire for weight loss, accompanied by a strong fear of obesity. The patient has a distorted perception of his physical form and has anxiety about weight gain, even if this is not actually observed.

Obsessive-compulsive disordercharacterized by the development of obsessive thoughts, memories, movements and actions, as well as a variety of pathological fears.

Paranoid schizophrenia- one of the types of schizophrenia, characterized by the predominance of hallucinations and (or) delusions, characterized by the predominance of hallucinatory-paranoid clinical pictures.

Borderline personality disorder- a personality disorder characterized by impulsivity, low self-control, emotional instability, high anxiety, and a strong level of desocialization.

Post-traumatic stress disorder- a severe mental condition that occurs as a result of a single or repeated traumatic situations, such as participation in hostilities, severe physical trauma, sexual violence, or the threat of death.

Autism spectrum disorder- a general developmental disorder characterized by a persistent deficit in the ability to initiate and maintain social interactions and social connections, as well as limited interests and frequently repetitive behavioral actions.

Disinhibited attachment disorder of childhood- a mental disorder resulting from a lack of close emotional contact with parents. Expresses itself in promiscuous friendly behavior aimed at attracting attention.

Cotard syndrome- a combination of anxiety depression, depersonalization (often in the form of painful psychic anesthesia), derealization and Kotard's delusions. Delirium of Kotard is a nihilistic-hypochondriac depressive delusion with fantastic content and ideas of grandeur and denial (world cataclysms, general death, etc.), which manifest themselves simultaneously or separately.

Schizophrenia- polymorphic mental disorder or a group of mental disorders associated with the breakdown of thinking processes and emotional reactions. Schizophrenic disorders in general are characterized by characteristic fundamental disorders of thinking and perception, as well as inadequate or diminished affect.

Even behind the worst symptoms of mental illness, there is a human soul that needs care, love, and participation.

Hello to all of us, love and respect for each other.