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?
Esben
“Two seperate realities melted into a phsycosis” Esben Drachmann Holdgaard Bukh, 28 y/o When Esben is 22 a sexual assault in his childhood resurfaces his mind. For two years he copes with a cannabis- and alcohol abuse, until his reality collapses and the phsycosis sets in. Today Esben recieves therapy for PTSD. Esben sees the pshycosis as a defence mechanism. It helped him deal with very difficult things. When it happens, it’s like someone else takes over the control. Like a glass put in front of reality. He starts getting peculiar, spirituel experiences. Vile thoughts and many sleeplesss nights causeshim to let go of the wheel in a car. He didn’t want to die. He just didn’t want to live like that.
