Over 20 years ago now ...
Bloody Facebook and Google pics are always posting ‘shared memories’ of 1,2, 5 or whatever years ago. Well, here are some images from my 20 years ago. A truly dreadful time.
I lost the partner I loved. I lost the job I treasured. I lost my sanity to psychotic-depression. I needed 10 sessions of ECT, months of art therapy and psychodrama, years of anti-depressants, and years of psychodynamic psychotherapy to reveal the origin of my condition in childhood abandonment and abuse.
None of this helped my partner. The collateral damage from severe mental disorders is extensive and the burden on relationships is colossal. Although I have been well for years, I retain a complex mixture of shame and grief for the pain I caused those I loved.
These are some of the therapeutic images I created in Art Therapy.
