Hi @DogMan79
Wow! You certainly are 1 very talented and creative little forumite I must say! I love your art work despite not knowing much about art and painting myself. Does Year 10 Art class elective count as any expertise by chance😂? You are very creative and I admire greatly the effort you have put into your individual art works.
I totally understand what you mean when you say things changed for you at uni with your mental health issues. I had most of my mental health issues at uni as a mature age student and found that I became more creative as my mental health issues were diagnosed to the point that I actually love this element of my mental health journey if that is even possible to have as a benefit of having mental illness. Even now, I find myself picking up knitting to help me deal with my mental health episodes as I knitted myself a jumper back in the early stages of my diagnosis at uni over 20 years ago. I find that I love making blankets as I get to use different left over balls of yarn and I’ve coined the term ‘Crazy Blanket’ as each blanket I knit is different and unique and are crazy because of how I mix the colours in the blanket. When I was in hospital for an admission in September, I started to knit what I called my Mental Health Recovery Blanket as I started knitting it whilst I was an inpatient on the psych ward. As yet, it’s not completed but I’m getting there with it slowly with 2 more strips to make the final border of a total of 3 different sections. This photo (upside down again- sorry!) shows the first 2 sections of the completed blanket. I’ve got more photos of it in the Knitting thread if you want to see more of the story of this blanket. Basically, it tells the story of my recovery from a psychosis episode that resulted in me being admitted to hospital for a 9 day admission whereby at the start of my admission, for the first 2 days, I was only allowed my knitting for approximately 2 hours a day which was later extended once my psychologist told the staff that knitting helped calm me down and was good for my mental health recovery. Like I said, I’m still working on the blanket and hope to have it completed within the next few months as a momento to show and remind me that I did have psychosis yet I was able to successfully get through it, despite not believing that at the start of the episode which started in late August.
Okay. That’s enough of my talking. Thanks for sharing your artwork and creative works!
Time to get back to knitting my beanie that I’m currently working on!
Take care!
Judi9877☺️🧶
