I have created a black and white photographic series that I’ve called fragmented. The series of images focus on feelings and symptoms of Borderline Personality disorder, a very stigmatised mental health disorder that I was diagnosed with back in 2014. This will be an ongoing personal project of discovery and self-understanding.
My intention is to create a visual representation of some of the symptoms and intense feelings that I deal with daily, while suffering with the debilitating disorder. Chronic feelings of emptiness and loneliness are associated with borderline personality disorder and to me it can often make me think, and feel that I am broken or incomplete, made up of many fragments that could shatter at any given moment.
All the images in this series have been done in black and white tones to signify the positive and negative thinking patterns associated with Borderline personality disorder. Everything is either Good or Bad, Happy or Sad, there is no in between, this is commonly known as black and white thinking. I have chosen to represent three of the four main symptoms of Borderline Personality disorder, Impulsive Behaviours, Emotional instability and Disturbed Patterns of thinking or perception. Each Image containing its own story and motive.
