I Used Paper Clips To Illustrate Mental Illnesses And Disorders

This is so accurate.

I really relate to this. It's kinda like when you walk in late to class and everyone's looking at you.

yup.

I feel anxious just seeing that lmao XD

Very cool have a look at this article on self harm https://www.recoverydirect.co.za/behavioral/self-harm/

So accurate, it's like you're alone in the world... I struggle with it daily, and this is perfect

on point

the feeling, just this feeling, when the doctors refuse to do what they should... :'( when the psychiatric ward refuses to do what they should to help me... :'(

Starkness.

WOW....good visual. I feel like this when my depression sticks its ugly head into my life. Very interesting.....

All OCD patients are not obssessed of organizing things. Their obsessions can be towards something else, for example collecting something. For example some hoarders are OCD patients. But I understand that it is difficult to express the diversity of OCD with just one simple art picture.

Someone, PLEASE fix that paperclip!

:internal screaming: wwwhhhhhhyyyyyy I actually dont have OCD but still...

"I'll bring awareness to mental illness by using tired stereotypes and centuries-old stigma! Surely this can't go wrong!"

I think this was the only one that missed the mark; the more we peddle the stereotype that people with OCD are singularly obsessed with cleanliness and order, we will always have people claiming to be ‘a bit OCD,’ because they like a tidy house - hence overshadowing quite a painful mental illness.

beautiful

kaiyak to. it's the same shape. seemingly functional. pero you know it's kinda off. and the sense of isolation. ang ganda nito. naiiyak ako.

Should be more like ... a paper clip inside a hand grenade with the pin half pulled. And then have it figure out ways to completely f**k up your life and the lives of people who love you. Like spouses.

it reminds me of lovely by Billie Eilish

Distressed

reflects the duality of my sense of self...literally two different people depending on where I am on the roller coaste

This is good but I think I would have one side with 30 paper clips all linked together to represent mania and the other side with one paper clip all by itself off in the right corner.

For this one I would probably have one side with 25 paper clips linked together (manic phase) and on the other, one lone paper clip off in a corner (depression phase)

Also tru

This one speaks to me. The one normal paper clip surrounded by the stranger ones on all sides: it's like the strange ideas talking to the one in the middle

for me, at least, it would be more accurate if the center one was tiny and the others were huge and crowding the tiny one. DID isn't what you'd think of as multiple personalities, exactly. they don't feel like "your" personalities. they're more like roommates you're forced to share a head with.

i actually have d.i.d.

For me, it looks like a gray, average guy, surrounded by colourful ads: "Try me! Buy me!".

I really like these. This one could also be hundreds of paper clips, or rusty ones (which would represent most people's horrible diets).

It's like a plate with three small bites

I dont want to eat even though I know I should.... :'(

Anorexia isn't the only eating disorder. Try again.

It's like the paperclips are drugs, and they're coming out of a container of drugs

Any ideas for borderline?