“This photo is about looking into the heart of the sun. When you are schizophrenic you see beautiful colours but it makes you blind – like looking into the sun. If you look too close things blur but it doesn’t mean they are not there.
Schizophrenia or mental illness is when the colour drains from you. I sleep a lot because my medication makes me tired. The pills help me stop hearing voices and they relax me but they make me a different person. I enjoyed being more active – I wish I wasn’t on them. The pills have taken away my mind. I don’t have the same weapons as other people so when people call me slow I can’t respond. Being on medication is like being in the Commons when you want to be in the Lords.” Simon
© Simon / United Response / PhotoVoice
