People are starting to really come around to the harsh truths about depression, but it's still difficult for many to convey the toll the psychological disorder they must face every day.
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One artist, using a series of unorthodox sketches and paintings, is looking to change that.Haenuli Shin is a fashion designer who has struggled with depression for much of her adult life.
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Rather than simply restate the symptoms of her illness, Shin decided to rely on her hobby of drawing to get the point across.
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In this series, titled "Death Or Depression," she shows a very odd dynamic between the artist and death itself.
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Seeing how death and depression went hand in hand in a work at the Paris Orsay museum, she decided to contemplate works where Death is her friend. Her only friend.
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She states about her struggle with depression:
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"I thought about my lost friends, broken hearts and hard times that I’ve been through. I wanted to accept my depression and I started to draw with short messages."
It borders on cute, visually, but the truth is that this spotlights a very unhealthy relationship in which the mentally ill "depend" on death as a salvation from their suffering.
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So while it certainly has a positive message in finding happiness somewhere, the fact that it's with death speaks to the prevalence of suicide among those afflicted.
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"Even dark things give comfort, and often depression is the odd comfort for knowing us well."
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