No More Shame
An exhibition and a book. About mental illness and experience.
Ide, photography and interviews by Agneta Ekman. Text editing Linda Weichselbraun.
Published Rio Kulturkooperativ 2013.
Young woman with horse
When you get your diagnosis, I know there lots of people who react like I did. It made me less ashamed of how I feel. But I still feel ashamed. Here I am with the horse Robban. He’s been very important for me.
Jannis
Lots of people believe that schizophrenia makes you weak. But the opposite can be true. You have to be very strong, otherwise you burn yourselves out.
Lots of people believe that schizophrenia makes you weak. But the opposite can be true. You have to be very strong, otherwise you burn yourselves out.
Two of the times I’ve been depressed, I’ve jumped from a fifteen storey building. I was very lucky to have survived.
Peter
I’ve never been ashamed of my being mentally ill. But I have been ashamed of the of them bullying me, and beating me. Ashamed of being different.
Agneta Ekman 