Understanding Mental Illness.

This project has really opened up my mind about Self Harming and Mental Illness. I have spoken about how photographs have helped me see how Self Harming would be created within an image but I never posted about understanding mental illness and how I came to understand what goes through somebodies mind when they are suffering before I continued on my project journey.

A book which helped me create an understanding of mental illness was 'Understanding Mental Illness' by Missouri State Library it talks about the understanding of what actually is mental illness and the different mental illnesses which are out there that may be individuals did not know came under the category of   mental illness. This book really made me acknowledge that mental illness is always around us and a lot of individuals go through some sort of mental illness throughout their lives.

Researching into mental illness and especially self harming has made me have a different thinking process of the issues which are at hand, especially reading this book and having to truly understand what someone goes through when they are suffering from a condition or an issue which is not easy to get rid of. This book really helped me gain more knowledge which I could put towards my project of Self Harming.