The Destructive Voice

By Phil Lancaster

'I suffer from Paranoid Schizophrenia, my illness has been severe at times and led me to spend over 17 years in various institutions/psychiatric units, I'm currently an Out Patient. I make Art as a way of Creatively balancing out the Negativity of my illness.

This picture is of one of the Voices I hear, I hear five different Voices, they all say different things to me and because of this, I can recognise them and have given them names this is a picture of The Destructive Voice'. This voice makes me destroy a lot of my Artwork and has destroyed a lot of my life and most of my 'Self' including my Self Belief, Self image and Self Respect'