Galskapsprosjektet

Dad had brain machines to reprogram the brain. Weird, huge light machines that emitted flashing colored therapeutic light. Dad was amazing, he was both a psychiatrist and crazy! A theater performance that stages a person's need to talk about the experiences that characterize someone who has grown up with a mother or father who is mentally ill. The performance is documentary, and what the audience is presented with is taken from reality. In today's society, we no longer use the term "madness" to describe mental illness, but often refer to it as anxiety, schizophrenia, depression or bipolarity. Conscious people that we are, we have learned to use these terms in everyday speech without this necessarily giving us any greater insight into how it feels to live with these diagnoses.Flaatenbjørk kompani believes that raising awareness of mental illness has a pitfall, namely morbidity, and the fear that "myself" is like "them". In reality, mental illness is a part of life and nothing more than normal. Diagnoses are good tools for the healthcare system, but they may not be as suitable for interpersonal conversations. Can an unsympathetic approach to diagnoses contribute to restricting the conversation around mental illness? Does our awareness of diagnoses actually make it easier for us to talk about our own mental health? How should we relate to mental illness, and how do children experience it when a parent receives a diagnosis?