Louisa Mellor Nov 2, 2017
Eva O’Connor’s Overshadowed offers meaningful insight into the first-person experience of anorexia, and ultimately, hope…
Rib-cages, tape measures, girls frowning at salad ingredients… anorexia has an illustration problem. Unlike images associated with other mental illnesses, pictures accompanying discussions of anorexia rarely illustrate a sufferer’s psychological distress, but focus only on its external effects—a shrinking body and, apparently, lettuce-based anxiety.
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Google ‘depression’ and you’ll see arty, metaphorical line drawings of people cradling their heads, usually in silhouette, usually in the rain. Bipolar disorder has the on-the-nose shorthand of happy/sad theatre masks. Post-traumatic stress disorder, helpfully or not, has cornered the market in blindfolded soldiers screaming.
Whatever the clichés,...
Eva O’Connor’s Overshadowed offers meaningful insight into the first-person experience of anorexia, and ultimately, hope…
Rib-cages, tape measures, girls frowning at salad ingredients… anorexia has an illustration problem. Unlike images associated with other mental illnesses, pictures accompanying discussions of anorexia rarely illustrate a sufferer’s psychological distress, but focus only on its external effects—a shrinking body and, apparently, lettuce-based anxiety.
See related Annual DC TV crossover: spoilery set pictures emerge Arrow season 6 episode 5 trailer, synopsis and images Supergirl season 3: first look at Reign in costume Legends Of Tomorrow season 3 episode 5 trailer and synopsis
Google ‘depression’ and you’ll see arty, metaphorical line drawings of people cradling their heads, usually in silhouette, usually in the rain. Bipolar disorder has the on-the-nose shorthand of happy/sad theatre masks. Post-traumatic stress disorder, helpfully or not, has cornered the market in blindfolded soldiers screaming.
Whatever the clichés,...
- 11/1/2017
- Den of Geek
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