-
Filmmaker Ida Storm Wants to Change the Face of Borderline Personality Disorder
Forget Winona in ‘Girl, Interrupted’. The young Norwegian spent years recording her own struggle with the illness on video, resulting in the eye-opening documentary ‘Being Ida.’ Filmmaker Ida Storm Wants to Change the Face of Borderline Personality Disorder by Zing Tsjeng OCT 9, 2015 12:05 PM Forget Winona in ‘Girl, Interrupted’. The young Norwegian spent years recording her own struggle with the illness on video, resulting in the eye-opening documentary ‘Being Ida.’ When I was at school, there was one easy and convenient way to diss someone’s choice of girlfriend. “Oh, I don’t know about her,” you’d say casually, “she’s a little borderline.” Reared on portrayals of bunny-boiling Glen Close…
-
Bobby Baker diary wins Mind Book of the Year
Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me praised by judges as an ‘astonishing insight’ into the author’s experiences Performance artist Bobby Baker’s diary of the drawings she created during the 11 years she struggled with mental illness has been chosen as the Mind Book of the Year. Authors and judges of the prize Fay Weldon, Blake Morrison and Michele Roberts found Baker’s Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me to be the book which had provided the greatest literary contribution to increasing understanding of mental health issues over the last year. A collection of 158 drawings and watercolours from the hundreds Baker drew daily between 1997 and 2008, it is an “astonishing…
-
Story of an Artist with BPD
Faith in objects Crushed by borderline personality disorder, a local man finds salvation in art By Amy Yannello Mark Williams—no relation to the local radio talk-show host of the same name—may be the most talented artist you’ve never heard of. From the biodome-like steel structure in his backyard, to the 4-by-6 mixed-wood xylophone he crafted from scratch, to the two working looms he built and uses in his back bedroom, Williams is one of those artists for whom it seems there is nothing his mind can conceive that he cannot create. His modest home in north Sacramento is filled with his various art projects, such as meticulously crafted moving carrousels,…