Every artist knows the power behind the pen and paper.
It's the power to express ourselves.
It's the power to connect with others.
It's the only real power any of us have because it's ours — just ours. No one gave it to us and no one can take it away.
That being said, we're the only ones who truly know how to use the power we have. It's up to us to spread that far and wide. SHARE with others.
This 17-year-old schizophrenic girl is using her artistic powers to share her story with others online. She reveals very little about herself besides a username: ThePsychoticArtist.
This drawing is called Birdie; the artist says the bird sings to her.
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She posts her drawings, she says, to make others happy.
The first few look like regular doodles, the musings of a teen girl. When we continue scrolling though...
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...they get a littler darker and darker. You can begin to feel the illness penetrating past the paper here.
The artist reveals that these drawings are actually more than just doodles and creative crafting. This one? She says she saw her eyes do this in the mirror.
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The drawings are replications of her hallucinations.
She says she sees a lot of stars and swirls and circles. This drawing is a representation of herself she created with her friend Sarah. Sarah designed it while ThePsychoticArtist painted and "inked" it.
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