I usually never comment on videos like this but these claims are incorrect. Louis Wain suffered from a brain injury in the 1920's, and was admitted to the hospital for his mental wellbeing. He always loved to paint cats, it was his favorite thing to do. These paintings in the post are not chronological. He died around people who loved him dearly and he spent his last days paintings the only thing he wanted to paint, little kitty cats. His story is rather tragic.
@@shibo2319idk i find that much creepier .. Think abt it he drew that thinking it looked good n not knowing that it looked bad.. making u wonder what spot he was on
I wish people would stop spreading this lie. Louis Wain did not draw abstract cats because of a worsening mental state, he did it for fun. The abstractness of the art does not correlate with his schizophrenia. He painted very normal cats late into his life.
@@MoonmanSpacejamhe never claimed his mental state didn’t worsen, the fact he explicitly said “wasn’t because” instead of “didn’t have” should have made this obvious
Besides all the comments pointing it out, as an artist It's easy to tell right off the bat that he wasn't getting worse at remembering cats faces or some bs like that. He just wanted to paint abstract cat paintings, and his skill and knowledge of cat's anatomy shines through every image. Truly an amazing artist
It’s also a good favor to mention that his father was involved with lace manufacturing and so a lot of those my intricate designs were likely inspired partially by that as well.
This is a complete myth, the artist didn’t even have schizophrenia. His art style just changed over time lmao, it’s abstract art. Nothing to do with the man’s madness.
One of his last images was a smiling cat, no wild fractal patterns, with the caption "I'm happy because everyone loves me." It was made in response to the outpouring of support from his community when he was hospitalized for a brain injury. It's one of my favorite pieces of art.
I feel like whenever most neurotypical people encounter something that makes them feel uncomfortable they try to make it about mental illness. They can't just enjoy weird/abstract art for what it is, the artist's mental state is always pointed out. Yes, a lot of artists are mentally ill, but it isn't always the reason they created certain pieces. Maybe think about why things make you feel uncomfortable instead
Yes, after is correct. My sister suffered from it developing during her mid years in highschool. She loved drawing as well when she was younger, the things she drew after she started hearing voices were sometimes disturbing.
it wasnt schizophrenia. he had a brain injury and he was dealing with the death of his wife, who loved when he painted cats for her. plus the paintings arent even in chronological order lol
You’re both right and wrong. He did have a brain injury, but physical trauma to the brain can trigger mental illnesses in individuals. So yes the injury could have caused it, but he still developed schizophrenia.
Wasn't this already confirmed as being BS? That these paintings weren't made in the chronological order people are led to believe they are by all the stuff that props his work up like this??
look up the painter! his last paintings were more "normal." schizophrenia isnt really like alzheimers, in most cases it comes and goes, and this is even more true for those that are medicated, which i beleive the artist was.@@TheHonestTake
I’m a student studying historical anthropology and western esotericism. I want to be an archeologist, museum curator, and professor. I also battle mental illness of my own that I won’t ramble on about, but I think this man is criminally misunderstood. His theories about “electricity” were visionary and his art to me is as well, especially if you’ve studied psychedelic and mystical motifs from other cultures. There’s a correlation to it all that is very fascinating if you look deep enough.
People who make videos like those really out themselves as not knowing a thing about schizophrenia. They literally thought, "severe schizophrenia is just a massive LSD trip, right?" Well, no, no not all
@@Dynaamicwas just going to say what the last guy said. Noteworthy however is the medications for his brain injuries effects likely caused him to be able to perceive dimensions and patterns beyond what a normal person can and it moved him in such a way he explored it. Not mentally ill though. Getting tired of these comments. Much love kimosabi ✋🏾
@@tophermohegan9797you just pulled all of that out of your ass man don’t lie “His medications likely made him perceive different dimensions” what are you even talking about lmfao
Given that your handle is “HonestTake”… and given thay you refuse to answer people wondering why you would blatantly misinform people… I believe you’ve earned my block.
People like this don't care if what they put out is true. It's quick content which requires no effort. Anyone with any principles would take this down or add a retraction. But they don't care, as long as it gets them views.
I have an older brother who has been schizophrenic pretty much all his life and he's also an incredible artist but sadly over the years as his psychosis has worsened due to the advancing stages of schizophrenia we have seen intense changes in his art. Strangely it's like he's gotten more creative but like these pictures the ideas have become further and further away from the influences of reality and now more prominent in the realm of pure schizophrenia itself. Some of his ideas I couldn't even dream! ALOT of it are things I have flat out never seen before in my life in any shape or form. I love my brother though and regardless of his mental illnesses he's get near and dear to me and the rest of my family. Keep the beauty comin Timothy Ball we love ya bro!
Schizophrenia is not normally strongly chronological or progressive? If you did see it in art, it would probably jsut appear in the form of depressive style and bizarre themes. Not that they can't tell that apart, but because they are going through so much.
"as his schizophrenia worsened" Schizophrenia doesn't "get worse" it has episodes, or periods of time where the mental illness can become more prominent in the day to day life of the sufferer. Edit: Some people don't seem to understand that episodes GO AWAY after awhile, meaning after the episode is over the sufferer is met with little to no symptoms until another episode flares up again. It doesn't get worse, it has periods of times where it's more prominent but that will fluctuate. It's not a static of line of progressive mental decay like dementia that so many people are trying to relate it as.
If it becomes more prominent it becomes worse. I don't think even psychologists would get all snarky and pedantic about terminology. If someone's negative mental condition is becoming more prominent, then it's becoming worse.
@@spiderpsycho_8887 No, Schizophrenia is not a progressive disease like dementia, stop treating it as such, becoming more prominent doesn't mean "worse" in the sense that this video is saying it is. Because there can be periods where it's not prominent AT ALL!! There's episodes, it doesn't get worse.
He was actively drawing these abstract cats while he drew his regular ones ! The everybody loves me cat is post his stay at a psych ward bevause he appreciated all his family and friends helping him.
Schizophrenia is NOT Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously called multiple personality disorder, or what we used used to call a split personality. They are VERY different.
please stop calling every nontypical mental issue that you don’t understand schizophrenia. as an actual schizophrenic it gets tiring having people ask you if this happens to you because of course not, this man wasn’t even a schizophrenic, nor did his brain injury have any real affect on his art
@@luiebandzz6720 i’m lucky to be on a more manageable side of the spectrum; stress is a big trigger for me, so stressful situations can trigger the onset of a delusion for me - sometimes they aren’t dangerous, but i’m medicated and i have coping mechanisms to cope with them :) i think the worst i’ve experienced is spending a month and a half convinced that my family were trying to unalive me, but they stuck by me thankfully, and i’m much better at keeping myself afloat these days :) not an invasive question at all, don’t worry! i’m aware that there are a lot of questions and stereotypes about the illness and i’m happy to answer
@@gh8stcoffee I hope this doesn’t offend you but I find the illness very fascinating. I myself had a breakdown in the summer of last year and I had a very strong feeling that I was continuously developing it. I did months of research and visits to psychiatrists. But they summed it up to me being a hypochondriac since I showed no signs of having the illness. To sum it up, I was paranoid of everything. When I ordered food I was skeptical of eating it, I was to scared to sleep alone in my room so I slept on the couch, I was scared of using the bathroom alone and taking a shower alone. Being alone in general made my mental state worse. And having thoughts of just not being real and feeling dissociated from the real world. Which they summed that up to very high levels of anxiety which gave me derealization for the unforeseeable future. But we’ll see how the next few years will go.
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What an amazing symptom of a horrible fate. My uncle suffered for years with paranoid schizophrenia until his early death. It only ever got worse, not better. For the last decade of his life, he was in an almost constant state of fear and delusion.
Bro thats actually terrifying the fact that you dont even have to do drugs to hallucinate like that. Feelings going out dude i hope you got all the care you need.
I used to get high back in the day but found out how to ground myself and integrate the information. Now people think I'm either perpetually high or schizophrenic, but in all honesty, I'm just as delusional as any human in existence that perceives a physical body and thoughts.
I used to get high back in the day but found out how to ground myself and integrate the information. Now people think I'm either perpetually high or schizophrenic, but in all honesty, I'm just as delusional as any human in existence that perceives a physical body and thoughts.
Dude, I honestly cannot explain it but those last few drawings is exactly the type of weird dream hallucination while I'm sleeping or awake. I experienced when I had a very a very very high fever that I would hope would pass. (Very stupid with me) but after that fever and those who are unexplainably terrifying dreams of just shapes and colors. Exactly like those drawings. I get the same feeling and memories of those feelings every once in a while. It's the weirdest thing
As somebody with "mild" schizophrenia (it doesn't affect my everyday life negatively), it's fascinating to see how others' perceiption of the world changes with the same condition
He didn't have schizophrenia and those paintings are not in order most of his stranger paintings were done when he was hospitalized for mental health yes but others were just his personal work based of the rugs and lace his father produced in his childhood and a tie to his culture. His lest abstract work were done for advertising and post cards my mom actually has some plates with his art from the 1930s.
“there has been speculation about his mental condition and suggestions that he was suffering from schizophrenia, with examples of his art appearing in several psychology text books in chapters covering the disorder.[6] In 1939, a psychiatrist, Walter Maclay, found some paintings by Wain in a shop in Campden Hill and put them in a sequence that, he claimed, showed evidence of a deterioration in the artist's mental state due to schizophrenia, even though the paintings were not dated. Maclay's theory has been challenged as Wain was still producing paintings in his old style, as well as more abstract "kaleidoscopic" designs, while at Napsbury.”
yeah no this is false btw, his schizophrenia never "worsened", he only started painting more abstract things for experimentation reason. in fact some of his paintings and drawings before he died were all very coherent and wonderfully wholesome. I've had it with the false dramatics of this brilliant man - his work should be loved for the joy it brings, not some exploitation of mental disorder
teleporting into a drifting mind. Some of these profound experiences are life changing and most don't understand that there is depth complexing and an ever evolving sense of what reality and perception is.
Makes you wonder. Did it lose dimension in a 2d drawing? Or did it gain more dimensions but it just looks that way on flat paper. Imagine what he was envisioning from the first picture to the last. Depending on how you perceive it. One could argue that he could be drawing us higher spacial understandings. But we see it in a 2d representation.
@@popdop0074 bro I'm chilling. I smoked weed maybe a dozen times. Drank a few times. I ain't on no lad I'm educated outside of petroleum based curriculum. Wtf u on?
@@TheHonestTake Kiddo if you ever find me with genuine care for what you do, it's because I will have voluntarily disconnected my brainstem. Nice response time though champ, I'm sure you care very little about my comment ;)
@@TheHonestTakeyou are spreading disinformation about a dead painter who painted psychedelic art as well as normal art and saying it’s schizophrenia instead of an interest with patterns. It’s just deceptive and pathetic. He did have a mental breakdown but because of a traumatic injury and this had nothing to do with his art
completely wrong. most people have signs of schizophrenia as teenagers/young adults at which point it worsens. but there is treatment and therapy. don’t let this comment scare you
I can't explain why but i kind of teared up not because i was scared but because it was a deep feeling of confusion and not being able to comprehend wtf it was looking at
Shout out. To the comments, i was curious about this and the 3 most updooted comments were the correct info surrounding the topic, you guys keep the truth alive on shit like this i love it
I knew someone well and ex of mine... She drew her own anime characters. She was amazing and discovered her in high school and we became friends as years went by and she started showing signs of such above and her drawing were becoming so dark and wicked and then she took her own life because oddly enough her cat died. It was really tragic.
The cat drawing the cat is when his mind realizes that its losing a war. Then you can see the complete drop off from reality when the first abstract colored cat comes up. And the rest show the slow decent. His mind frantically trying to hang on. I love to do art. I can see every emotion in each drawing
I remember going thru a brief episode in my life, where I looked at people and it was difficult for me to identify their faces and I was really paranoid. These pictures sort of reminded me of that
a similar artist to this is Bryan Charnley, who created just as unsettling and disturbing self portraits of himself as he stopped using his medication. he eventually ended his life in the 1990s
Louis Wain drew cats as a hobby/profession for years until his severe head injury in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He continued to draw cats in the hospital and tried to make some more money off them while recovering. His sisters had him declared insane by a doctor, but he was never diagnosed with schizophrenia, the term schizophrenia existed but was not commonly used in the 1920s and 1930s and you were more likely deemed insane than diagnosed with a disorder. A psychiatrist found a series of his paintings at a store and compared the contrast of the different paintings to the developments of schizophrenia which is how this rumor came about. His paintings are displayed in books about schizophrenia to help visualize how some schizophrenic brains can worsen over time, but this doesn’t mean Louis wain himself had this condition. It’s common to develop schizophrenia due to traumatic events, and it’s possible he could have developed it at some point but it has never been officially confirmed. It is true that his paintings got more colorful and vibrate over time but that also likely could just be change in art style as he changed mediums or developing new skills rather than loosing touch with reality.
I love his paintings im just sad he went thru so much and got so hurt but he went to the rainbow road of heaven surrounded by his loved ones doing the art he loved he in my opinion is one of the least tragic painters out there because he died happy while others were not so fortunate
It doesn’t lose dimension, it becomes more abstract. Also he is the reason we all love cats! He drew cute pictures for his dieing wife to comfort her and everyone loved them. He is also the first psychedelic artist with is cat painting post his wife’s death and it wasn’t due to schizophrenia it was due to brain damage last I checked. That man is a legend represent home right! We wouldn’t have cat memes if it weren’t for him!!
All the extra eyes that are looking at you from the background are almost like how our brains see patterns in random assortments of things. It's an unsettling feeling for a moment
I managed a group home for adult males with schizophrenia.. Before I became manager I was a caregiver on overnights. One night I had a client who was 19, terrified to go to sleep. He did a lot of graffiti (had charges for tagging shit throughout the city). He drew for me what he was seeing.. and it was terrifying.
I usually never comment on videos like this but these claims are incorrect. Louis Wain suffered from a brain injury in the 1920's, and was admitted to the hospital for his mental wellbeing. He always loved to paint cats, it was his favorite thing to do. These paintings in the post are not chronological. He died around people who loved him dearly and he spent his last days paintings the only thing he wanted to paint, little kitty cats. His story is rather tragic.
Great info!
Yes and its not that the drawings changed, he was obviously drawing in a drastically different style.
@@TheHonestTakegreat video effort on figuring that out beforehand
@@infinitevoid227What's with the untold hostility dawg
@@shibo2319idk i find that much creepier ..
Think abt it he drew that thinking it looked good n not knowing that it looked bad.. making u wonder what spot he was on
I wish people would stop spreading this lie. Louis Wain did not draw abstract cats because of a worsening mental state, he did it for fun. The abstractness of the art does not correlate with his schizophrenia. He painted very normal cats late into his life.
A quick google search would prove you wrong. He suffered a brain injury and was in and out of mental hospitals later in life
@@MoonmanSpacejam and how does that prove OP wrong
@@MoonmanSpacejam I never said he wasn't in mental hospitals. I'm saying his mental state didn't affect his art
Yeah but that would require the tiniest bit of googling and not being creatively bankrupt. Gotta get that content made.
@@MoonmanSpacejamhe never claimed his mental state didn’t worsen, the fact he explicitly said “wasn’t because” instead of “didn’t have” should have made this obvious
Besides all the comments pointing it out, as an artist It's easy to tell right off the bat that he wasn't getting worse at remembering cats faces or some bs like that. He just wanted to paint abstract cat paintings, and his skill and knowledge of cat's anatomy shines through every image.
Truly an amazing artist
It’s also a good favor to mention that his father was involved with lace manufacturing and so a lot of those my intricate designs were likely inspired partially by that as well.
YOU ARE NOT AN ARTIST DAWG 😭😭
@@t1t1t62 Ahh you right, I've only been drawing for 3 years. Maybe once I hit the 10 year mark I'll be an artist
@@BGrimmart you'll be an artist when your actually good enough to make "art" 🤣
i draw better than you and i lost both my arms in war
@t1t1t62 🤣 Alright I'll keep that in mind that I can't make art after I drop my comic in a few days
The cursor in the middle of the paintings was driving me crazy😂
Autism lol
didn’t notice till u said sum
like how hard is it to jus move the fuckin mouse😭😭
Same haha
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This is a complete myth, the artist didn’t even have schizophrenia. His art style just changed over time lmao, it’s abstract art. Nothing to do with the man’s madness.
Artists can understand this journey. I think all of his cats are beautiful.
Maybe a little to do with his madness lol
He started smoking dmt
He had brain injury, but yeah
It seems like he just took dmt and saw dmt cats and drew them lol
One of his last images was a smiling cat, no wild fractal patterns, with the caption "I'm happy because everyone loves me." It was made in response to the outpouring of support from his community when he was hospitalized for a brain injury.
It's one of my favorite pieces of art.
DAMN that hits hard
What's it called
@@inujoshua1359 "I Am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me" by Louis Wain. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect given the caption.
I love that art, damn didn't realise it was his last
Just looked it up and I started crying I've never been emotional over art before
I feel like whenever most neurotypical people encounter something that makes them feel uncomfortable they try to make it about mental illness. They can't just enjoy weird/abstract art for what it is, the artist's mental state is always pointed out. Yes, a lot of artists are mentally ill, but it isn't always the reason they created certain pieces. Maybe think about why things make you feel uncomfortable instead
nope its just a title to get more viewd
@yeahokay99 probably not the people who post the bait, but this is for sure true with some people and abstract art.
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“After schizophrenia”
Like he just gained it? 💀
I mean, it is something that people develop over time due to a multitude of life experiences and circumstances. 🤷
yes. i’m schizoaffective which is very similar and i didn’t develop symptoms until i was 15, then got diagnosed 3 years later
Yes.
Epigenetic
He lost his mind after his wife died. He was making them for her at first when she was sick.
Yes, after is correct. My sister suffered from it developing during her mid years in highschool. She loved drawing as well when she was younger, the things she drew after she started hearing voices were sometimes disturbing.
it wasnt schizophrenia. he had a brain injury and he was dealing with the death of his wife, who loved when he painted cats for her. plus the paintings arent even in chronological order lol
Why comment this if the top comment already did bro
Bec dumb ppl dont read comments@@zango3134
You’re both right and wrong. He did have a brain injury, but physical trauma to the brain can trigger mental illnesses in individuals. So yes the injury could have caused it, but he still developed schizophrenia.
was just about to comment this. A traumatic brain injury can cause anyone to develop mental illness if it goes untreated. @@mustafacik617
Wasn't this already confirmed as being BS? That these paintings weren't made in the chronological order people are led to believe they are by all the stuff that props his work up like this??
Yes complete BS
Really? That would be unfortunate if that is the case
Yeah it's confirmed as BS
look up the painter! his last paintings were more "normal." schizophrenia isnt really like alzheimers, in most cases it comes and goes, and this is even more true for those that are medicated, which i beleive the artist was.@@TheHonestTake
@@TheHonestTakeYeah! His last painting "I smile because everyone loves me" is of a cute adorable cat that doesn't look like a hallucination at all
Some of those pieces could easily be a funkadelic album cover and we’d be none the wiser 💀
I’m a student studying historical anthropology and western esotericism. I want to be an archeologist, museum curator, and professor. I also battle mental illness of my own that I won’t ramble on about, but I think this man is criminally misunderstood. His theories about “electricity” were visionary and his art to me is as well, especially if you’ve studied psychedelic and mystical motifs from other cultures. There’s a correlation to it all that is very fascinating if you look deep enough.
I if you don’t mind me asking, what do you feel, think and visualize with the psychological aspect?
People who make videos like those really out themselves as not knowing a thing about schizophrenia. They literally thought, "severe schizophrenia is just a massive LSD trip, right?" Well, no, no not all
I can confirm that LSD can sometimes feel like schizophrenia, but schizophrenia legit never feels like LSD usually does.
@@yunghypn062 Perfectly said!
@@yunghypn062 How do you know what both LSD and Schizophrenia feel like? You really can't mix the two without serious complications
@@meech2163by taking LSD and then developing schizophrenia? Not that uncommon
schizophrenia may for some people have been triggered by the use of LSD, even weed can trigger it in some cases.@@meech2163
I really love how he left his mouse in the middle of the paintings to enhance the viewing experience
I bet he did it on purpose to increase engagement in the comment section...
@@Frostinipsyes and I took the bait. I still hate him for it though
MOVE THE MOUSE CURSOR YOU MONSTER!!
@@Frostinipswell I’m blocking the channel then, don’t need that shit in my feed
I was going to leave a similar comment
"it's like every point of the cat is looking at you" amazing way to put it. I wouldn't call it scary, i think it's beautiful the more complex it gets
What I love is the prominece of the eyes. The center pull of the focus.
Louis: (draws cats out of varying beautiful patterns in a way that is very obviously just a particular style of art)
Some rando: HE BRAIN BROKEN
He had schizophrenia and thats most likely the reason of the change
@@Dynaamiche didn't have schizophrenia he just got a new art style abstract art is a thing
@@Dynaamicwas just going to say what the last guy said. Noteworthy however is the medications for his brain injuries effects likely caused him to be able to perceive dimensions and patterns beyond what a normal person can and it moved him in such a way he explored it. Not mentally ill though. Getting tired of these comments. Much love kimosabi ✋🏾
@@tophermohegan9797you just pulled all of that out of your ass man don’t lie
“His medications likely made him perceive different dimensions” what are you even talking about lmfao
@@wolfslayer7539 bro was clinically insane from that brain injury. Has something to do with his artwork
Given that your handle is “HonestTake”… and given thay you refuse to answer people wondering why you would blatantly misinform people… I believe you’ve earned my block.
People like this don't care if what they put out is true. It's quick content which requires no effort.
Anyone with any principles would take this down or add a retraction. But they don't care, as long as it gets them views.
No apology, no title change. Just sits by the campfire of ignorance in bliss. Will also block this fool.
Bro this guy makes the worst content iv ever seen id genuinely rather watch some UA-cam kids Elsa and spiderman cancer 😂
How you block people here?
The "do not recommend channel" button, you can also block them on streams, not that useful though@@ocre7130
I would buy those ‘schizophrenic’ paintings 100% especially the one where the eyeballs were falling out.
Those last cats look like the colorful shapes you see when you close your eyes and press on them
Ye, these paintings aren’t chronological, they don’t depict a worsening mental decline or anything. Dude just liked cats and embroidery.
He was real asf for that
@@scrumptious_human fax 📠
BRO HAS A DEGREE IN YAPPOLOGY
He did absolutely nothing in this video, typical reaction "creator"
Bro started talking like he knew he was seeing the effects of schizophrenia before the schizo paintings even showed on screen💀💀
Says the cats are losing dimensions in the face while showing a cat with dimension in its face
“losing dimensions in the face” literally what is he talking abt 😭
@@Torkai I think he is referring to the depth of the drawing, the cats become flatter and more 2d as he goes along but hes probs just bullshitting
I have an older brother who has been schizophrenic pretty much all his life and he's also an incredible artist but sadly over the years as his psychosis has worsened due to the advancing stages of schizophrenia we have seen intense changes in his art. Strangely it's like he's gotten more creative but like these pictures the ideas have become further and further away from the influences of reality and now more prominent in the realm of pure schizophrenia itself. Some of his ideas I couldn't even dream! ALOT of it are things I have flat out never seen before in my life in any shape or form. I love my brother though and regardless of his mental illnesses he's get near and dear to me and the rest of my family. Keep the beauty comin Timothy Ball we love ya bro!
I’ve had really bad Magic Mushies trip that looks like how these abstract cats look
Schizophrenia is not normally strongly chronological or progressive? If you did see it in art, it would probably jsut appear in the form of depressive style and bizarre themes. Not that they can't tell that apart, but because they are going through so much.
Exactly. There is no before and after💀🤦♀️
"as his schizophrenia worsened"
Schizophrenia doesn't "get worse" it has episodes, or periods of time where the mental illness can become more prominent in the day to day life of the sufferer.
Edit: Some people don't seem to understand that episodes GO AWAY after awhile, meaning after the episode is over the sufferer is met with little to no symptoms until another episode flares up again. It doesn't get worse, it has periods of times where it's more prominent but that will fluctuate. It's not a static of line of progressive mental decay like dementia that so many people are trying to relate it as.
Schizophrenia worsens over time. Stop talking out of your ass.
No… it can get worse. Idk what ur talking abt
No it can become more prominent it doesn't have stages like dementia, it doesn't "get worse" @@StrBLADEDing
If it becomes more prominent it becomes worse. I don't think even psychologists would get all snarky and pedantic about terminology. If someone's negative mental condition is becoming more prominent, then it's becoming worse.
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No, Schizophrenia is not a progressive disease like dementia, stop treating it as such, becoming more prominent doesn't mean "worse" in the sense that this video is saying it is.
Because there can be periods where it's not prominent AT ALL!! There's episodes, it doesn't get worse.
He was actively drawing these abstract cats while he drew his regular ones ! The everybody loves me cat is post his stay at a psych ward bevause he appreciated all his family and friends helping him.
"its like every point of the cat is looking at you" str8 facts
Schizophrenia is NOT Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously called multiple personality disorder, or what we used used to call a split personality. They are VERY different.
please stop calling every nontypical mental issue that you don’t understand schizophrenia. as an actual schizophrenic it gets tiring having people ask you if this happens to you because of course not, this man wasn’t even a schizophrenic, nor did his brain injury have any real affect on his art
I have to ask. What do you specifically feel and think? if you don’t mind me asking.
@@luiebandzz6720 i’m lucky to be on a more manageable side of the spectrum; stress is a big trigger for me, so stressful situations can trigger the onset of a delusion for me - sometimes they aren’t dangerous, but i’m medicated and i have coping mechanisms to cope with them :) i think the worst i’ve experienced is spending a month and a half convinced that my family were trying to unalive me, but they stuck by me thankfully, and i’m much better at keeping myself afloat these days :) not an invasive question at all, don’t worry! i’m aware that there are a lot of questions and stereotypes about the illness and i’m happy to answer
@@gh8stcoffee I hope this doesn’t offend you but I find the illness very fascinating. I myself had a breakdown in the summer of last year and I had a very strong feeling that I was continuously developing it. I did months of research and visits to psychiatrists. But they summed it up to me being a hypochondriac since I showed no signs of having the illness. To sum it up, I was paranoid of everything. When I ordered food I was skeptical of eating it, I was to scared to sleep alone in my room so I slept on the couch, I was scared of using the bathroom alone and taking a shower alone. Being alone in general made my mental state worse. And having thoughts of just not being real and feeling dissociated from the real world. Which they summed that up to very high levels of anxiety which gave me derealization for the unforeseeable future. But we’ll see how the next few years will go.
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What an amazing symptom of a horrible fate. My uncle suffered for years with paranoid schizophrenia until his early death. It only ever got worse, not better. For the last decade of his life, he was in an almost constant state of fear and delusion.
The artist created these during a time when people thought of cats as disgusting animals, but his wife and he loved their many cats very much.
Im actually schizophrenic and some people i know tell me that the shit i talk about is like what people talk about when being high.
Bro thats actually terrifying the fact that you dont even have to do drugs to hallucinate like that. Feelings going out dude i hope you got all the care you need.
this artwork is literally exactly how my cat looks when i’m on LSD, definitely a connection here 🤨
@@user-lr2lt7qf8eor a dmt cat
I used to get high back in the day but found out how to ground myself and integrate the information.
Now people think I'm either perpetually high or schizophrenic, but in all honesty, I'm just as delusional as any human in existence that perceives a physical body and thoughts.
I used to get high back in the day but found out how to ground myself and integrate the information.
Now people think I'm either perpetually high or schizophrenic, but in all honesty, I'm just as delusional as any human in existence that perceives a physical body and thoughts.
Dude, I honestly cannot explain it but those last few drawings is exactly the type of weird dream hallucination while I'm sleeping or awake. I experienced when I had a very a very very high fever that I would hope would pass. (Very stupid with me) but after that fever and those who are unexplainably terrifying dreams of just shapes and colors. Exactly like those drawings. I get the same feeling and memories of those feelings every once in a while. It's the weirdest thing
Are you sure he wasn't just damn high on some shrooms?😂
Biblically accurate cat
God bless you, Jesus Loves you. ✝️❤️♾️🙏 May God bless and protect you, Amen.
Now make it ANGRIER
Infinitely angry!!!
Now give it a cowboy hat with a rubber duck on top that has a cowboy hat.
I really like how he always had a mouse courser in the middle of the screen
As somebody with "mild" schizophrenia (it doesn't affect my everyday life negatively), it's fascinating to see how others' perceiption of the world changes with the same condition
He didn't have schizophrenia and those paintings are not in order most of his stranger paintings were done when he was hospitalized for mental health yes but others were just his personal work based of the rugs and lace his father produced in his childhood and a tie to his culture.
His lest abstract work were done for advertising and post cards my mom actually has some plates with his art from the 1930s.
“there has been speculation about his mental condition and suggestions that he was suffering from schizophrenia, with examples of his art appearing in several psychology text books in chapters covering the disorder.[6] In 1939, a psychiatrist, Walter Maclay, found some paintings by Wain in a shop in Campden Hill and put them in a sequence that, he claimed, showed evidence of a deterioration in the artist's mental state due to schizophrenia, even though the paintings were not dated. Maclay's theory has been challenged as Wain was still producing paintings in his old style, as well as more abstract "kaleidoscopic" designs, while at Napsbury.”
Well glad I checked out the comments. thank everyone!
That graph had a steep drop off. He went from the divine cat self to road kill quick
Made in Abyss before episode 10 vs after
bro was painting fractals half a century before they were discovered
fractals live within the brain subconsciously, and can be experienced when the mind is tricked
Go look at ancient Thai architecture, fractals have been around forever in the scope of human design and creativity
@@scuffeddeimos damnn, I didnt know that
The red one with the outlines is actually fire
"It's like every point of the cat is looking at you" what a short and precise way to sum up EXACTLY how those paintings make me feel
Move your pointer!
Never it’s my trademark lol
@@TheHonestTakeis your other trademark blatant misinforming?
@@cambrown2652lol shut up Karen
yeah no this is false btw, his schizophrenia never "worsened", he only started painting more abstract things for experimentation reason. in fact some of his paintings and drawings before he died were all very coherent and wonderfully wholesome. I've had it with the false dramatics of this brilliant man - his work should be loved for the joy it brings, not some exploitation of mental disorder
teleporting into a drifting mind. Some of these profound experiences are life changing and most don't understand that there is depth complexing and an ever evolving sense of what reality and perception is.
As an artist an a cat mama, i can confirm this is how cats act when owners aren’t home
Makes you wonder. Did it lose dimension in a 2d drawing? Or did it gain more dimensions but it just looks that way on flat paper. Imagine what he was envisioning from the first picture to the last. Depending on how you perceive it. One could argue that he could be drawing us higher spacial understandings. But we see it in a 2d representation.
Yah some of them remind me of paintings I've seen that are meant to be viewed while on LSD.
@@BumbleDoomYou'll meet that last cat if you do DMT lol
@@popdop0074I was thinking the same shit
DMT CATS
@@BumbleDoom what does lsd do? I can see how it could be viewed as a mental decline. But I argue. He was closer to God
@@popdop0074 bro I'm chilling. I smoked weed maybe a dozen times. Drank a few times. I ain't on no lad I'm educated outside of petroleum based curriculum. Wtf u on?
Imagine putting effort (research) into your videos instead of adding nasally commentary that doesn't make a difference.
Imagine being someone who thinks this will impact anything I choose to do. You’re right though my voice is nasally but I’m glad it annoyed you lol
@@TheHonestTake Kiddo if you ever find me with genuine care for what you do, it's because I will have voluntarily disconnected my brainstem.
Nice response time though champ, I'm sure you care very little about my comment ;)
@@TheHonestTakeyou are spreading disinformation about a dead painter who painted psychedelic art as well as normal art and saying it’s schizophrenia instead of an interest with patterns. It’s just deceptive and pathetic. He did have a mental breakdown but because of a traumatic injury and this had nothing to do with his art
@@TheHonestTakeu also said you loved seeing him lose himself because of the "schizophrenia" which is crazy
@@TheHonestTakeyou’re clearly petty enough to respond to a comment with 5 likes on it, so obviously you’re not completely unbothered 😅
Everyone saying the art didn’t change after schizophrenia just made me loos all interest in this dude
His story really did have a huge impact on how I viewed life. What a tragic but beautiful story.
So what do you think you added to this video?
Nasal sounds rofl
@@CVE42287and absolute annoyance. The cats were still normal looking and he’s talking about how they’re “losing dimension”
“One more short before bed!”
The movie about this guy broke my heart
I found these to be quiet comforting actually
Mouse. Pointer.
More like a talking point amiright?
@@TheHonestTake True. It does just about guarantee interaction!
Scariest thing about schizophrenia, is the total lack of warning signs till the day the brain breaks....
Terrifying
That’s not even remotely true lol…
that’s not true at all
nobody goes like bammm full blown psychosis, also there are types of schizophrenia. Long story short you got misinformed
completely wrong. most people have signs of schizophrenia as teenagers/young adults at which point it worsens. but there is treatment and therapy. don’t let this comment scare you
It's cool that kept a mouse cursor in everything he did.
I can't explain why but i kind of teared up not because i was scared but because it was a deep feeling of confusion and not being able to comprehend wtf it was looking at
It’s not schizophrenia.
How do you know? This artist had schizophrenia
@@NinjaThatLongboardshe wasn't diagnosed with schizophrenia, he just liked psychedelic art and cats, and did those two even earlier in his life
A lot of those later pictures are really terrifying. That disease is no joke
Shout out. To the comments, i was curious about this and the 3 most updooted comments were the correct info surrounding the topic, you guys keep the truth alive on shit like this i love it
I knew someone well and ex of mine... She drew her own anime characters. She was amazing and discovered her in high school and we became friends as years went by and she started showing signs of such above and her drawing were becoming so dark and wicked and then she took her own life because oddly enough her cat died. It was really tragic.
"ART" is all i can say. It's beautiful for me.
the patterns remind me of stimming, a calming motion. not something to be feared but something to relax the brain and bring happiness
The artist I think being confused here is Bryan Charnley, who did a series of self portraits and journal entries as his schizophrenia worsened
It's amazing how the painting went from ordinary to fantasy to godly to hellish to godly again. I'm going to make this as my reference.
OH MY GOD IS THAT 6TH ONE THE OINGO BOINGO ALBUM COVER NO WAY
Dude is like "look how scary it is"
Me: "wooow ngl I kinda want these. Soo creative and cool!!"
One of my favorite chill music to listen to. The song is "Hvitserkz choice" from the tv show series Vikings. Your welcome.
I love the manic expression in the cats eyes. His work is so good
That's just fractal art of the cat. Like painting it in the 4th dimension. Pretty cool tbh.
He saw their energy rather then their features. Notice how they stayed cute and fuzzy.
The cat drawing the cat is when his mind realizes that its losing a war. Then you can see the complete drop off from reality when the first abstract colored cat comes up. And the rest show the slow decent. His mind frantically trying to hang on.
I love to do art. I can see every emotion in each drawing
I remember going thru a brief episode in my life, where I looked at people and it was difficult for me to identify their faces and I was really paranoid. These pictures sort of reminded me of that
a similar artist to this is Bryan Charnley, who created just as unsettling and disturbing self portraits of himself as he stopped using his medication. he eventually ended his life in the 1990s
i love his one that says "i am happy because my friends love me"
Louis Wain drew cats as a hobby/profession for years until his severe head injury in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He continued to draw cats in the hospital and tried to make some more money off them while recovering. His sisters had him declared insane by a doctor, but he was never diagnosed with schizophrenia, the term schizophrenia existed but was not commonly used in the 1920s and 1930s and you were more likely deemed insane than diagnosed with a disorder. A psychiatrist found a series of his paintings at a store and compared the contrast of the different paintings to the developments of schizophrenia which is how this rumor came about. His paintings are displayed in books about schizophrenia to help visualize how some schizophrenic brains can worsen over time, but this doesn’t mean Louis wain himself had this condition. It’s common to develop schizophrenia due to traumatic events, and it’s possible he could have developed it at some point but it has never been officially confirmed. It is true that his paintings got more colorful and vibrate over time but that also likely could just be change in art style as he changed mediums or developing new skills rather than loosing touch with reality.
I love his paintings im just sad he went thru so much and got so hurt but he went to the rainbow road of heaven surrounded by his loved ones doing the art he loved he in my opinion is one of the least tragic painters out there because he died happy while others were not so fortunate
I remember a drawing a serial killer did of one of his victims screaming and her eyes were so detailed it felt cursed
Stuff I DIDNT near to hear at 3 am “It’s like every point of the cat is looking at you”
The one that had the stuff coming out of the cats eyes with the creepy ghost looks cat heads unsettled me to a point I’ve never been unsettled
“Brooo” “dude” “woww” “thats creepy” “crazy” “broo” *so happy to have had that profoundly intellectual commentary* 🙄
Imagine seeing stuff like that and it’s so real you can’t even tell if it’s actually there or not.
It doesn’t lose dimension, it becomes more abstract. Also he is the reason we all love cats! He drew cute pictures for his dieing wife to comfort her and everyone loved them. He is also the first psychedelic artist with is cat painting post his wife’s death and it wasn’t due to schizophrenia it was due to brain damage last I checked. That man is a legend represent home right! We wouldn’t have cat memes if it weren’t for him!!
I don’t know anything about art or him but I do find all of these absolutely beautiful
What's really mind-boggling is that he created every single painting with a little white hand in the middle.
That's not schizophrenia, that's possession 😂
The artist sense of unease just grows and reflects in his work every step of the way.
All the extra eyes that are looking at you from the background are almost like how our brains see patterns in random assortments of things. It's an unsettling feeling for a moment
I love the fourth painting; he seems slightly bothered by me relishing in his cuteness despite the fact that he is obviously busy.
I live with bi polar disorder and I couldn't imagine living with schizophrenia and having my mind slowly betray itself
I once had a bad fever and I dreamt of cats exactly like this but like kinda a scary acid trip.
I managed a group home for adult males with schizophrenia..
Before I became manager I was a caregiver on overnights.
One night I had a client who was 19, terrified to go to sleep. He did a lot of graffiti (had charges for tagging shit throughout the city).
He drew for me what he was seeing.. and it was terrifying.
its good that people see clearly, mental health is stigmatized enough by the label alone. and does not need another platform to push it further.