Gold: Do you see, what I see
Psychosis is a condition of the mind where your perception of reality is changed. It affects the way you think, feel and experience the world. The mental illness can affect anyone, but the causes of the pshycotic periods can be complex and hard to determine. It can stem from stress, lifechanging events, drugs, physical or other mental illnesses. You get to meet eight out of 12 people, who have experienced phsycotic behaviour. Though the causes vary, the difficulties to determine what is real and what is not applies to all of them. The exhibition consists of two sides of the same person. One is who they are, one is a glimpse of the reality as they experienced it during their psychotic periods. Through close collaboration we have tried to visualize their state of mind during the phsycosis. This was done to give you the ability to try and understand them as individuals and how it affected who they are today.
For can you be the same, when you return to reality again?
Eva
“I was scared of dying, and yet I did something that could have cost me my life” Eva Fisher Jørgensen, 54 y/o Back in 2021 Eva is getting treated for breast cancer. Her sons have left the nest and combined with the pandemic, she gets lonely. At first she doesn’t notice, but her behaviour starts to change. She isolates herself. The thought of drowning herself gets her hospitalized with a severe depression and phsycosis. One day Eva jumps from the first floor of the building. She suffers an open skull fracture, broken back and both of her wrists. She didn’t do it to commit suicide. She knows this today. It wasn’t about dying, but about getting out of the situation she couldn’t bear to be in.
