"My name is Kate and I’m an 18-year-old artist with schizophrenia"
"I’ve been ‘diagnosed’ with multiple labels over the years. At the age of 17 I finally was diagnosed with schizophrenia after my parents realized my mental health was getting worse"
"I draw a lot of my hallucinations as drawing helps me deal with it"
"In my hallucinations I hear voices, sound effects, random noises, and I often see bugs, faces, and disembodied eyes"
"Inanimate objects will look like a Van Gogh painting: warped and swirly."
"I hallucinate bugs quite often, and my depression makes me feel worthless like a fly. These bug illustrations represent my illness"
"This is a quote by an artist named Jory, and it was something that spoke to me."
"This one crawls out of the vent in my ceiling and makes clicking noises, or I’ll see it crawl out from underneath things"
"This is a self-portrait. I looked in the mirror and my eyes did this thing. I painted it"
"I have a lot of intense emotions, and hear voices telling me to light things on fire"
"Here is an example of the disembodied eyes I see. They surface in a mounds or masses on my walls or floors. They warp and move."
"This is Birdie, she sings to me"
"My self esteem is at its lowest, and I feel insignificant. I always wish I could shapeshift into a “prettier” person"
"What eyes sometimes look like, with more of those odd colors and circles"
"Organization, communication, paranoia, depression, anxiety, and managing my emotions are the biggest struggles for me"
"What I live with isn’t easy and it can be debilitating, but I’m not living out on the streets screaming about alien abductions. That’s not to say there aren’t people out there who are that severe – there are. However, there are also people like me who just stay at home most of the time cooped up in their room. It is a spectrum of symptoms with varying severity levels. Each person’s experience is unique."