Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.