We are the ones that are unnoticed and shamed for existing under the control of the ‘non-existent’ disease of mental disorders. A disease which effects one in seven Australians in their lifetime , though education systems continue to refute the significance of expressing mental illness.
I was criticised in school for exploring the subject matter or mental illness and domestic violence in my artwork, where I was told that it is too “controversial” and “confronting” for people. My artwork comprised of an expressionistic self-portrait with a monochromatic colour scheme, engaging the audience through raising awareness on the stigma surrounding mental illness that it rarely addressed on a public scale. Rather than an education system promoting the wellness of their students, they chose to ignore the issue altogether, prompting me to focus on optimistic subject matters to represent the school in a …show more content…
We constantly feel like we are in inescapable darkness which forces us to carve a scarlet line across our thighs. Depression is unimaginable, although far too many people consistently suffer with the unbreakable stigma, where, as the global statistic of adolescent suicide rises and the education system continues to fail the generations which are pivotal to the evolution of Australia. We are trapped and self-driven to insanity, because our undiagnosed illness is a culmination of exaggeration and fiction. Adolescents more so than ever need the help of society to shelter and nurture them to wellness because adolescents with mental illnesses are sick, though can't seek professional assistance because there is a barrier which causes an absence of social normalisation. I was 17, trapped in my own mind and held against my will in an eternity of depravation, darkness and my only solution was suicide as the school in which my parents entrusted my safety failed to provide the fundamental needs of its
I was criticised in school for exploring the subject matter or mental illness and domestic violence in my artwork, where I was told that it is too “controversial” and “confronting” for people. My artwork comprised of an expressionistic self-portrait with a monochromatic colour scheme, engaging the audience through raising awareness on the stigma surrounding mental illness that it rarely addressed on a public scale. Rather than an education system promoting the wellness of their students, they chose to ignore the issue altogether, prompting me to focus on optimistic subject matters to represent the school in a …show more content…
We constantly feel like we are in inescapable darkness which forces us to carve a scarlet line across our thighs. Depression is unimaginable, although far too many people consistently suffer with the unbreakable stigma, where, as the global statistic of adolescent suicide rises and the education system continues to fail the generations which are pivotal to the evolution of Australia. We are trapped and self-driven to insanity, because our undiagnosed illness is a culmination of exaggeration and fiction. Adolescents more so than ever need the help of society to shelter and nurture them to wellness because adolescents with mental illnesses are sick, though can't seek professional assistance because there is a barrier which causes an absence of social normalisation. I was 17, trapped in my own mind and held against my will in an eternity of depravation, darkness and my only solution was suicide as the school in which my parents entrusted my safety failed to provide the fundamental needs of its