Therapy Books
I used an open project to create books dealing with Anxiety, Depression and Bipolar disorder. Different paint and type styles were utilized to show the conditions visually and make each book unique. Paint was used to add texture and a unique feel to every book, shapes are used in place of people to express how symptoms are shown. Adding a more symbolic system that take the judgement of people out of it.
Anxiety
Green is a color that eases anxiety.
Squares were used inside the book to show the fragile elements harmed by this precarious condition.
Generalized Anxiety involves long lasting anxiety over an extended time. So for the left page I design a collection of broken squares of different opacity stuck together while never being a complete whole.
Panic Disorder involves brief sudden attacks of panic. That is illustrated by the graphics arranged into a bar graphic like configuration as anxiety raises and lowers over time.
Specific Phobia is anxiety driven by specific fear. to illustrate that dread the green box is shown being invaded by spiders and leech things invading it’s space.
Social Anxiety is depicted with a group of boxes clustered together, while one box is afraid to mingle with the group.
Separation Anxiety has two blocks on two sides of a page struggling to stay together with strands almost touching.
Post Traumatic Stress is depicted by a single damaged box, pieces of it falling off due to trauma.
Depression
Yellow is a color that eases depression.
Spheres were used to display the fall that can come with the condition.
Persistent Depression is visualized by circles overlapping and dragging each other down as the condition worsens.
Postpartum Depression is shown using womb/egg imagery with ripples of sadness.
Psychotic Depression is a sphere being torn apart by the beams complicating it’s existence.
Seasonal Depression has the circle taking the form of a sun, moving in a cycle that has an affect on the text depending on it’s position.
Bipolar
Red and blue were used to show the mix of forces competing in bipolar disorder.
Red shows the rush of manic symptoms and blue is used to show the drop of depression.
Squares and spheres are used to display how it mixes elements of both to become something much more difficult to live with.
Bipolar I has episodes of manic and depressive symptoms, so similar to Depression it has a series of circles being dragged down this time becoming darker and eventually interacting with larger depressive symptoms at the bottom.
Bipolar II follows a pattern of symptoms and is shown by a series of squares arranged to interact and influence each other.
Cyclothymic Disorder has series of his and lows. So it is similar to the graph design in the Anxiety book but this time it also has floating bubbles complicating the disorder.
Other Specified and Unspecified Bipolar and Related Disorder is very general so it is shown via a circles and squares constantly interacting and changing each other.
