Quite often projects like this don't translate that well to people who don't already know what it would feel like, but I think your paper clips work. Also, your write up managed to get your point across in a factual manner instead of the usual style where people come across as whiney emo a******s crying for attention. I'm very impressed.

I don't particularly identify as having any mental illnesses, but I really understand your art and understand mental illness a little better as a result. How you've managed to achieve that with paperclips is beyond me!

These are, for the most part, based on stereotypes and stigma. Anorexia isn't the only eating disorder, ocd isn't simply wanting things to be "neat", and DID isn't as "colorful" as you make it look here.

powerful

simply GREAT!

I am actually diagnosed with the first six on the list and been free of number eight for fourteen years now , I think the illustration makes perfect since. Each one illustrates how it makes makes you feel, 1.anxiety= scattered and chaotic. 2.Depression= Very alone. 3.OCD= everything around me is organized and neat just as the paper clips are accept that purple one at the bottom , not only is it crooked but it is also upside down , that one represents me, my world is organized but i'm off kilter. 4.PTSD= as the paper clip in number two it is alone , but it is not smooth like the other ones looks almost rippled and frail. it can do the same job as the other paperclips but can't handle the same kind of pressure a normal paperclip can and could snap at any moment causing everything to fall apart.5.Bi Polar=The same as Depression accept you are alone on two different planes one up one down. 6. DID=I am the one in the middle being isolated by the other personalities feeling like they are

Missed out a couple of them, but otherwise it works well

This was really great. I'm a counselor and this is very representative

Okay, this is what I call art. Its great.

GENIUS!

If you don't think a particular entry fully conveys a mental illness or disorder, then create your own version. Just as no two people are exactly alike, no two experiences with the same mental disorder are alike.

For schizophrenia there could be a transparent paperclip and a bunch of other ones like it surrounding a normal one