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I Show The Darkness Of Depression Through Conceptual Photography
You live in a room full of darkness. The room inside your head. It’s lonely.
You entered to hide but there’s only blackness inside – reflection of nightmares and fears. The darkness wraps around you – you can’t wash it off with soap, you are never clean enough. It has you screaming but no sound coming out. You crawl in the corner to hide but even walls seem to be against you.
“Just hang in there” – they will say not seeing that you’re falling to pieces. The anxiety that never stops. It will make you go mad trying to remove that itch. Your skin is your enemy. It will run thorns through your spine – everything hurts but it’s only you.
You locked yourself inside. Are you a person worthy of coming out? With that darkness around you, with that spikes down your spine. Who needs this ugliness? Maybe a creature like this deserves to leave in darkness?
You’re in it alone, no one can see from the outside the monsters that hide in the darkness and only you know that monster you are scared of the most – is part of you.
You walk around, meet people but wherever you go you still carry that dark room with you. You smile “I’m fine” but that lonely soul inside is curling up in the last ray of light.
Quoting J.K Rowling: “Of course it is all happening inside your head. But why does it mean that it’s not real?” Depression and anxiety are real. They are not something you can just “shake off”. It is not poetic, it’s painful. With the worst pain in the world – the one that hurts your soul.
It is nothing to be ashamed of. All of us can get locked up in darkness. It is not something to ignore – no one deserves it, no one can deal with it… no one should.
If you see someone entering the dark room or living in it – help them. Help them see that they can come out, deserve to come out and are loved outside.
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You live in a room full of darkness. The room inside your head. It’s lonely
The darkness wraps around you – you can’t wash it off with soap… You are never clean enough
It has you screaming but no sound coming out
You crawl in the corner to hide… but even walls seem to be against you
“Just hang in there” – they will say not seeing that you’re falling to pieces
The anxiety that never stops… It will make you go mad trying to remove that itch… Your skin is your enemy
It will run thorns through your spine – everything hurts but it’s only you
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Little letitia 7 years ago
Of course it relates to depression. You feel you're locked in a tiny cell insider your own mind, the darkness you feel encompasses you and adheres its self so tightly to your body. It makes you feel as though you're suffocating when there is nothing physically keeping you from taking a breath. All you want to do is hide away in the blackness the numbness brings but somehow the problems, the thoughts, the selfhate every negative feeling seems able to find a way through the cracks to you. People try to make you feel better but unless they've been where you are they will have no idea that even after hearing their supportive words you still can't stop yourself from cracking, breaking, drifting off in tiny prices across the slightest breeze. The anxiety one is pretty straight forward, the worse my depression gets the worse myanxiety gets and the anxiety literally makes me scratch, twitch, fidget and claw at my skin. It feels like torture and yet to the outside world who don't understand
Little letitia 7 years ago
It looks like you're simply wallowingg in your own self pity and they think that you don't want to stop the pain, the you encourage it.
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June Gamble 7 years ago
I'm so bloody tired of conceptual 'artists' impressions of depression/anxiety/panic etc. STOP trying to glamourise these conditions with airy fairy bloody ballet dancers etc. Depression is NOT art - it is hell and no amount of fancy photography will ever portray it fully.
Victoria Krundysheva (Post author) 7 years ago
To some of those "bloody conceptual artist" portraying something like this helps them to cope with/work through it.
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Devin Burchfield 7 years ago
I feel like I can really relate and sympathize with these images. Thank you for making this. I feel like it can really encourage others to actually help those around them struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.
The Alchemist 7 years ago
I have ocd and sometimes I get trapped in my mind. If there's a problem I literaly cannot stop thinking about it and it gets worse and worse until I'm depressed and nothing makes sense anymore, and everything is grey and bleak.
Sharon Halfhill 7 years ago
I'm so sick of seeing this c**p. Like we f*****g get it. I've struggled with depression since my early teens and this s**t makes me cringe
Lisa Greene 7 years ago
Really hit home for me! This represents the torture that is anxiety and depression. Very well done! Thank you for posting this!
Jenni Ester 7 years ago
Wow these are so dark yet beautiful. I completely understand the anxiety part.
Tapan Patel 7 years ago
I have been throught depression without knowing it was depression. I have suffered through hell for almost 4 months. I am a photographer and always wanted to work on my feelings through photographs. This is speechless. Omthe one who has suffered can understand like no other.
Dank_to_the_MEMES 7 years ago
Downvote if you want, I think this encourages depression. I don't have depression, I'm just commenting. Please don't attack me, I'm only twelve years old.
Bogdan Boogie 7 years ago
Maybe is nice but not sure how is that related to people having depression. Did artist have dealt with depression before?
Sarah Moyer 7 years ago
To me it represents the inner turmoil of discussion - the lack of rational thought even through times of clarity. As someone who has suffered from depression I recognize the consumption of the darkness and the physical pain that is caused by the psychological torment. I truly enjoyed and could relate to every photo.
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Little letitia 7 years ago
Of course it relates to depression. You feel you're locked in a tiny cell insider your own mind, the darkness you feel encompasses you and adheres its self so tightly to your body. It makes you feel as though you're suffocating when there is nothing physically keeping you from taking a breath. All you want to do is hide away in the blackness the numbness brings but somehow the problems, the thoughts, the selfhate every negative feeling seems able to find a way through the cracks to you. People try to make you feel better but unless they've been where you are they will have no idea that even after hearing their supportive words you still can't stop yourself from cracking, breaking, drifting off in tiny prices across the slightest breeze. The anxiety one is pretty straight forward, the worse my depression gets the worse myanxiety gets and the anxiety literally makes me scratch, twitch, fidget and claw at my skin. It feels like torture and yet to the outside world who don't understand
Little letitia 7 years ago
It looks like you're simply wallowingg in your own self pity and they think that you don't want to stop the pain, the you encourage it.
Load More Replies... June Gamble 7 years ago
I'm so bloody tired of conceptual 'artists' impressions of depression/anxiety/panic etc. STOP trying to glamourise these conditions with airy fairy bloody ballet dancers etc. Depression is NOT art - it is hell and no amount of fancy photography will ever portray it fully.
Victoria Krundysheva (Post author) 7 years ago
To some of those "bloody conceptual artist" portraying something like this helps them to cope with/work through it.
Load More Replies... Devin Burchfield 7 years ago
I feel like I can really relate and sympathize with these images. Thank you for making this. I feel like it can really encourage others to actually help those around them struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.
The Alchemist 7 years ago
I have ocd and sometimes I get trapped in my mind. If there's a problem I literaly cannot stop thinking about it and it gets worse and worse until I'm depressed and nothing makes sense anymore, and everything is grey and bleak.
Sharon Halfhill 7 years ago
I'm so sick of seeing this c**p. Like we f*****g get it. I've struggled with depression since my early teens and this s**t makes me cringe
Lisa Greene 7 years ago
Really hit home for me! This represents the torture that is anxiety and depression. Very well done! Thank you for posting this!
Jenni Ester 7 years ago
Wow these are so dark yet beautiful. I completely understand the anxiety part.
Tapan Patel 7 years ago
I have been throught depression without knowing it was depression. I have suffered through hell for almost 4 months. I am a photographer and always wanted to work on my feelings through photographs. This is speechless. Omthe one who has suffered can understand like no other.
Dank_to_the_MEMES 7 years ago
Downvote if you want, I think this encourages depression. I don't have depression, I'm just commenting. Please don't attack me, I'm only twelve years old.
Bogdan Boogie 7 years ago
Maybe is nice but not sure how is that related to people having depression. Did artist have dealt with depression before?
Sarah Moyer 7 years ago
To me it represents the inner turmoil of discussion - the lack of rational thought even through times of clarity. As someone who has suffered from depression I recognize the consumption of the darkness and the physical pain that is caused by the psychological torment. I truly enjoyed and could relate to every photo.
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