Mount Everest, by Stuart Baker-Brown

From the BBC:

Stuart Baker-Brown, a UK photographer writing on World Mental Health Day, tells how schizophrenia has nurtured his artistic expression.

In my experience, schizophrenia is potentially a very creative tool which, as yet, has not been understood or recognised and is mistreated and so its powerful symptoms manifest as confusion and destruction.

… Sometimes it feels that the symptoms of my condition are very naturally creative and often without any prompting my imagination comes alive. My mind, as others with the condition, is often very stimulated, as if on a more heightened awareness than people without it.

… I personally believe that we are at the very beginning of having a true understanding of schizophrenia and its symptoms.

Let’s hope that after so much misunderstanding, this new research will open much-needed and refreshing doors to the truth.

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