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Part 2 of the new series in which I try to portray different mental disorders, or the emotions of the person affected behind them.
Today schizophrenia..
Prompt 1:
IMAGE: Fractured Realities | STYLE: Abstract, Surreal | MOOD: Chaotic, Fragmented | COLOR: Vibrant and contrasting palette | BACKGROUND: Twisted and distorted landscapes | SCENE: Multiple realities overlapping | DETAILS: Fragmented figures and distorted faces | RENDER: Surreal and disorienting | LIGHTING: Harsh and uneven | COMPOSITION: Dynamic and unpredictable | SHOT: Close-up shot | CAMERA: Experimental camera | LENS: Distortion lens | TAGS: Schizophrenia, fragmented realities, distorted faces, chaotic mood --ar 3:2 --style raw
Second step,zoom out 1.5
Third Step custom zoom and the prompt: BACKGROUND: Twisted, distorted and disturbing landscapes --ar 16:9
Enlarged in PS
Alice exhibits symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, and the Mad Hatter those of both Bipolar disorder and PTSD, Alice in Wonderland is a story so infused with mental illness that both of these characters actually had syndromes named after them...and we thought they were just bedtime stories read by loving parents....
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THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.
THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.
Paranoid schizophrenia of a neuronal network: The Deep Dream Generator!
The software tries to recognize some shapes, already known, an d does it so intensely, that it interprets things that aren't in this picture at all. Its a bit like when you look defocused on random patterns (f.e. a stain) and you "see" suddenly some faces or figures in it. Leonardo da Vinci thaought about that too and made a great (but here a bit too long) quote.
my brother suffers from schizophrenia. i dont post many pictures of him because he always looks so tortured.
If you sometimes feel torn and divided,
do not despair!
Merge your thoughts and feelings with your light, your inner beauty, your heart warmth, your vastness ...
Peace, love and serenity will soon flow through you
and you will feel whole, loving and unlimited ...
The first time that I used Bergger's monobath developer I was somewhat pleased with the results. I don't feel that way anymore.
We as photographers painstakingly pride ourselves on getting every element within our image perfect, with total control of its outcome and how we perceive it in finality.
You can not do this if you have a rouge player with schizophrenia playing wonderful in one game, then acting erratic in another. This is what I found with the Bergger One monobath developer. When the rules are followed, you should, and expect, a predictable outcome.
Of course it could be as simple as a Pokey LaFarge song "Something in the water". Perhaps.
Mamiya Universal Press
100mm F/3.5 lens
Kentmere 200, 120 B&W film
Processed in Bergger One monobath, 10 minutes 68 degrees, prewash 3 minutes, 30 second agitation first minute, 5 second agitation every 30 seconds thereafter.
Washed for 10 minutes
Epson V600 scanner.
PS, nothing was added to this image. I did remove power lines and some dust spots. Berggers uneven development/fix created the background effects. I do like the looks of the image though, mostly due to the composition.
And there it is finally. The photo why I climbed the mt. Rauenstein that evening about a week ago.
The sunset with one foot almost over the abyss. Well, it's not quite that dramatic. After all, mt. Rauenstein is one of the smaller mountains in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
But I had to admit that I was a bit worried about my camera. Of course only about that and not about me. The typical schizophrenia of a photographer.
Und da ist es endlich. Das Foto weswegen ich an diesem Abend vor ca. einer Woche auf den Rauenstein gestiegen bin.
Der Sonnenuntergang mit einem Fuß fast über dem Abgrund. Na gut, ganz so dramatisch ist das auch nicht. Schließlich ist der Rauenstein einer der kleineren Berge im Elbsandsteingebirge.
Doch etwas Angst um meine Kamera hatte ich schon, das muss ich zugeben. Natürlich nur um die und nicht um mich. Die typische Schizophrenie eines Fotografen.
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Well Sydney is rather blue this morning after yesterday's tragic massacre of six people at Bondi.
Sunday, 14th April, 2024.
It has now been revealed that the man who killed six innocent people yesterday at the the Bondi Junction Westfield Shopping Centre was a 40 year old man from Queensland (and not a Sydney resident) and, more significantly, suffered from
schizophrenia, and hated women. Five of his victims were young women.
Schizophrenia is indeed a wicked mental illness that has caused, through history, such terrible grief. Goodness knows how we address it.
Today's view of Sydney is from the Balls Head Reserve, at Waverton (near McMahons Point) captured just after sunset in the 'Blue Hour', on Monday 1st April, 2024. Directly opposite Balls Head is Blues Point and the infamous 'Blues Point Tower'.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 75-300 f/4-5.6L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
@2ᴇʟᴡƎ who inspired me to try something. I am not really satisfied by the result, but it was interesting to work on an specific idea.I think that the duality of the human being is a theme particularly difficult to put in image, so it's a crash test !
Last week I went for a walk around Mont Park for the first time. Mont Park Asylum was a psychiatric hospital and opened in 1912 and closed in the 1990s. It was also known as hospital for the insane. The grounds are now being developed into student accommodation and up market residential homes. They have kept most of the old buildings.
I only found out after my mother’s death that her mother was committed here for Paraphrenia, a type of Schizophrenia. My mother would have been 10 years old when her mother was taken away.
Her name was Elsie May.
I applied for her records and they are difficult reading. She spent several months in the Asylum in 1935 after attempting suicide by drowning, then again in 1937. She was recommitted around 1945 where she remained until her death from a twisted bowel in 1954 at the young age of 51.
I walked around, taking in these old buildings, wondering what her life was like here. From the old records, I don't imagine it was good. It seems she was only visited once in the time she was here with one letter asking for permission to take her for a walk around the grounds.
Did her unstable footsteps echo along the same well worn path where I was walking?
The grounds are adorned with beautiful old Elms and Oak trees. They would have been here when she was a patient 80 years ago though not as large.
I walked up to one of the trees and ran my fingers over its rough bark. I took in the shelter under its large branches as the rain gently fell. I felt their warmth and comfort, I heard the tree whisper.
Did Elsie look at this same tree? Did she feel the bark to remind her that there was life outside of these brick walls? Did she feel its comfort as I did while I wept for a woman I never knew?
When we look at the night sky, we are really looking into the past; the light we see is already old. I felt like this looking at this tree. My gaze matching Elsie’s, connecting me to her through time and space, even though we are light years apart sharing a different moment in time.
Her grave remains unmarked so this is my epitaph to her, my grandmother Elsie May.
14th May 2020:
If I took this once, then I took it about 50 times ... before I managed a photo that was in focus. Although I was lying on the hill in the garden at a horrible angle to try and get a macro shot with the wind blowing everything around too (other than me)!
Today is : World Schizophrenia Day. - nationaldaycalendar.com/world-schizophrenia-day-may-24/
And for the Silly News It's : National Scavenger Hunt Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-scavenger-hunt-da...
Or : National Escargot Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-escargot-day-may-24/
I'll take the snails. ;-)
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His Book of Prayer has been used to treat several diseases including schizophrenia, Hepatitis C, periodic disease, stress symptoms and depression.
Psychosis
A period of psychosis is when an individual loses touch with reality, seeing and hearing things that are not there and being inable to distinguish reality.
The common psychotic disorders include:
1. Bipolar disorder - Such patients have severe mood swings. Their mood might be high and very good a minute and suddenly they might experience psychotic symptoms.
2. Delusional disorder - These patients strongly believe in things that are not real.
3. Schizophrenia - Such patients interpret reality abnormally and it is a lifelong disease, which can result in psychotic symptoms.
4. Psychotic depression - It is a type of major depression with symptoms of psychosis
Psychosis can be triggered by traumatic experiences, stress, or physical conditions, such as Parkinson's disease, a brain tumour, or as a result of drug misuse or alcohol misuse. How often a psychotic episode occurs and how long it lasts can depend on the underlying cause.
The DSM*-5 states that psychosis involves abnormalities in one of the following categories or domains:
* Hallucinations: Experiences a person perceives to be real despite the lack of stimulus to cause them.
* Delusions: False beliefs that a person holds despite a lack of evidence or proof.
* Disorganized thought: Having thoughts that are not logical, unrelated, or loosely connected. A person’s thought process may drift away from the topic. Their speech may make no sense to others.
* Catatonia: The person may become unresponsive or oppose stimuli (negativism) or present with unintentional movements or activities that lack purpose (catatonic excitement).
* Disorganized behavior: Unpredictable or inappropriate emotional responses that are not in line with the situation.
* Negative symptoms: A decline in emotions, words, movements, or motivation (anhedonia).
* Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
How is psychosis treated?
With the right support it is possible to manage the symptoms of psychosis and recover!
Treatment usually involves a combination of:
* medicine/s
* education about the illness (psychoeducation)
* psychotherapy or counselling
* community support programs
* family support
* practical support
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Related (short) videos:
I. What is psychosis:
youtu.be/RRGGxK3OpNc?si=07EMmhWjZ7QUMWn2
II. Neurobiological description:
youtu.be/g3q5TaqOsKA?si=4FOlYtUu1k5VeAri
III. Simple schizophrenia (patient interview):
youtu.be/PcMJ98sNZOk?si=u3M3uWzZluEGcYKS
IV. Psychosis (patient interview):
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Kinkaku-ji, officially named Rokuon-ji, is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and a tourist attraction. It is designated as a World Heritage Site, a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape, and one of the 17 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto. The temple is nicknamed after its reliquary, the Golden Pavilion , whose top two floors are coated in 0.5 μm gold leaf. The current pavilion was rebuilt in 1955 after being destroyed in an arson attack.
The site of Kinkaku-ji was originally a villa called Kitayama-dai, belonging to a powerful statesman, Saionji Kintsune. Kinkaku-ji's history dates to 1397, when the villa was purchased from the Saionji family by shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and transformed into the Kinkaku-ji complex. When Yoshimitsu died the building was converted into a Zen temple by his son, according to his wishes.
The original Golden Pavilion is believed to have been constructed in 1399. Gold was an important addition to the pavilion because of its underlying meaning. The gold employed was intended to mitigate and purify any pollution or negative thoughts and feelings towards death. Other than the symbolic meaning behind the gold leaf, the Muromachi period heavily relied on visual excesses. With the focus on the Golden Pavilion, the way that the structure is mainly covered in that material creates an impression that stands out because of the sunlight reflecting and the effect the reflection creates on the pond.
During the Ōnin war (1467–1477), all of the buildings in the complex aside from the pavilion were burned down.
On 2 July 1950, at 2:30 am, the pavilion was burned down by a 22-year-old novice monk, Hayashi Yoken (Kinkaku-ji arson incident), who then attempted suicide on the Daimon-ji hill behind the building. He survived, and was subsequently taken into custody. The monk was sentenced to seven years in prison, but was released because of mental illnesses (persecution complex and schizophrenia) on 29 September 1955; he died of tuberculosis in March 1956. During the fire, the original statue of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was lost to the flames (now restored). A fictionalized version of these events is at the center of Yukio Mishima's 1956 book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and another in the ballet RAkU.
The present pavilion structure dates from 1955, when it was rebuilt. The pavilion is three stories high, 12.5 meters (40 feet) in height. The reconstruction is said to be a close copy of the original, although some have questioned whether such an extensive gold-leaf coating was used on the original structure. In 1984, it was discovered that the gold leaf on the reconstructed building had peeled off, and from 1986 to 1987, it was replaced with 0.5 μm gold leaf weighing 20 kg, five times the thickness and ten times the weight of the original. Although Japanese gold leaf has become thinner with the passage of time due to improved technology, the 0.5 μm gold leaf is as thick as traditional Japanese gold leaf. The interior of the building, including the paintings and Yoshimitsu's statue, were also restored. The roof was restored in 2003.
THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.
THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.