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?
Kerstine
“To me, the phsycosis is a little girl screaming” Kerstine Mouritsen, 29 y/o The first time Kerstine is phsycotic and admitted to the hospital, she is 14 years old. As the nurses strike she is sent home and her mom is then responsible for keeping her from comitting suicide. Years pass before Kerstine is diagnosed with paranoid skizophrenia. It feels like being possesed. The illness controls more of Kerstines life, than she thinks it ought to. There is no such thing as being normal, but she feels anything but normal. She dreams of education, family and a house some day. For now, her illness comes first. Every year Kerstine eats cake with a friend on the day she was diagnosed. Even though it may not be something to celebrate, she is determined not to see the diagnosis as a death sentence.
