An 18-Year-Old With Schizophrenia Is Turning Her Hallucinations Into Powerful Art

This drawing is of a creature she's seen crawl out of vent in her ceiling or out from underneath things. Kate says it sometimes makes clicking noises.I have always been an ‘artist’, I just didn’t realize what that meant until my mental illness appeared. I despise the term ‘mentally ill’; it implies that who I am as a person is fundamentally corrupted and broken.