Using Architecture To Explain 16 Mental Illnesses And Disorders

The walls should be shaking too

Is it supposed to show "feel like drowning all while feeling trapped"?

I'm an insomniac and he nailed it!

Omg people...This man is an artist. These are HIS takes on various human conditions. Stop critiquing his choices and just appreciate his gift and willingness to share with the world.

I can relate

The roof does not fit correctly with that pattern........ *internal screaming*

I truly can relate. This is me. I got Asperger, a form of autism where you are actually pretty smart.

This depicts very well the bits and pieces of memory and habit that linger with this disease. The cracks are nearly all the way through, excellent.

I think this one needs to be worked on.... It's still too safe......

This is great. I am not diagnosed with a mental illness, but a few times in my life since childhood I had this synestesic image of a random alternation between emptyness and chaos - with sound, image and body sensations. And I was in the gap, like the small tunnel between the two parts of the house. I felt powerless to them and hoping they would eventually stop: but this desire was also bipolar since I was afraid that stoping this motion would mean death. Now, when the randomness of life and all sorts of impediments gave me a sense of "whatever man, let's just keep going, it's not like I can control anything" I can feel these two forces but I find my place inside their dance and I acknoledge and respect them as the two sources of power: the active force longing to move and forge through life, and the suspension of feelings and intuition. They can't exist one without the other, they love eachother and want to dance in my soul. Ok, go!

One part ought to be a modernistic skyscraper making a vertigo-inducing statement and the other side a shaky stick-house leaning towards a deep life-less lake

The manic half should be flying off into space. The depressive side should be half sunk into the earth.

The design side should run off the shape--it's not contained.

It is not quite as chaotic as my manic tends to be but it's a good start. There needs to be more interaction on the two sides "mixed state" but I love the at the artist did this.

Not quite right. That is still too calm

I'm apparently "bipolar" though fitting us into boxes isn't healthy! This is kinda what it feels like though. Normal or manic

Nope, need the soaring glorious heavenly hypomania and the deep fall into the hellhole rut of despair and hopelessness

Not drastic enough.

as someone who struggles with bipolar disorder i can't relate to this whatsoever and it needs work

Since there are different types of bipolar disorder (I'm a type 2 myself) it's a hard disorder to portray in order to portray all the nuances of.

I can also relate to this, I have a bipolar daughter who just keeps fighting, and fighting, so proud of her progress

Good depiction but needs more definition of element of danger for the manic side. .

This needs to be worked on , I'm bipolar and this doesn't explain

Maybe it should be just half the house. Or half the house and other side destroyed to shreds.

It's amazing. well done Man

I've got Bipolar as well but there needs to be more houses that the sides are all different,

It is too mild for bipolar symptoms

I would have this as inside a clock because being bipolar is just ticking time bombs never know when they're going to explode

borderline would be interesting...

Looks cool and simple

I think the gap should be horiorzental instead of linear. The background is the normal as I see it, so the roof should be read and the basement should be black with signs of depression as it is sketched. But thats just my oppionion.

The depressive side would be melting on the left and the right side should be various shades of disjointed blocks.

Looks like durian house

Thought paranoia would be more like numerous eyes watching you or something. A maze sounds more like OCD or anxiety disorder.

The pictures are well thought through, thanks for that. But I don't think dyslexia is a mental illness

Whats with the corkscrew in the middle?

I can relate to this... Though in my experience it's more like being in a bubble. Although i fully appreciate what the artist was aiming for. Good job

Transgender isnt a disorder

All these disorders are in the DSM, which includes all mental illness, including cognitive/regulatory issues. Narcolepsy, dyslexia, etc are all in there.