Author: Ziyi Yang

I’ve been reading a lot of literature these past few weeks, and like jesminka said, to tell the story of bipolar as a mental illness. I had to become an EXPERT on this disease.I found a website for a journal that publishes specifically on mental illness in the Asian region called: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry . Here…

I’ve been watching a lot of films and TV series about mental illness lately. At the same time I’ve realised that in recent years, films and TV shows have become more and more interested in choosing mental illness as a topic. One of my favourite Netflix shows is called monster, which details the parental abuse…

In the presentation, I showed zuleika and Richard all my discoveries and attempts so far. I explained to them that my direction was to create a character, and Richard was very interested in the Chinese legend about the Chinese ghost that I mentioned. This also inspired me. Could I make a charactor similar to the…

I told Elizabeth about my intention to create a CHARACTER to represent bipolar.This tutorial had a major breakthrough in that I showed Elizabeth my new IDEA: I was going to create a character to interpret bipolar disorder. To anthropomorphise and visualise mental illness. Elizabeth recommended a book to me called: I had a black dog,…

How to tell a better story about bipolar disorder so that people can understand it better I’d like to experiment with two approaches: 1.Visual I found a film No Letting Go about bipolar disorder, and I want people to vicariously experience the characters in the film, to feel the patient’s experience in the first place,…