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Drawing Mental Illnesses (TikTok Trend)

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Updated Oct 31, 2022 at 04:55PM EDT by Zach.

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Drawing Mental Illnesses is a social media trend where artists draw their interpretation of various mental illnesses and disorders. Artists including Shawn Cee and Toby Allen helped popularize the trend throughout the mid-2010s. The trend became notably popularized on TikTok throughout 2021 and 2022, inspiring viral and ironic versions of the meme where ironic disorders like lactose intolerance and being British are drawn as if they were mental illnesses. While similar in name, the trend does not share the same exploitable format used in the Drawings Made By People With Mental Illness meme.

Origin

Artists have been sharing their artistic interpretations of mental illnesses online numerous times throughout the 2010s. On August 25th, 2015, Bored Panda[1] published a collection of artwork by illustrator Toby Allen in which he draws mental disorders as monsters, garnering over 784,000 views in seven years (example shown below, left). On October 17th, 2016, Bored Panda[2] posted a similar collection of artwork by Shawn Cee, garnering over 3.8 million views in six years (shown below, right). On October 24th, 2018, Bored Panda[3] shared another collection of art like this from Allen.


zestydoesthings.tumblr.com Dissoznative Identity Dusander The dissociative identity monster (also known as multiple personality disorder) can be characterized by its ability to alter its form into whatever it likes. As well as changing it self physically, the creature also takes on dif ferent personas of itself each with their own personality. The monster's constantly altering form re- flects its victims alternate personalities. If many different personalities exist, the monster and victim can become confused about their original identity and multiple personas can play out in the same from No DID monster looks or acts the same as another. Toby Allen 2013 POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER #INKTOBER www a

On September 4th, 2021, TikToker[4] @thementalproject posted his first video drawing a mental illness, insomnia, garnering over 2.1 million views in a year (shown below).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7003940570712362245

Spread

The trend spread across TikTok over the following year, inspiring numerous viral examples. On September 19th, 2021, TikToker[5] @whooarethey posted a video of themself drawing bipolar, garnering over 8.7 million views in a year. On November 10th, Twitter[6] user @commentsooc posted screenshots of a TikToker who ironically drew asthma as a mental illness, garnering over 260,000 likes and 17,000 retweets in 11 months (shown below).


? tiktok comments @commentsooc Drawing hental illnesse 1068 comments tinydancer_love can you do athsma 1:32 PM Nov 10, 2021 Twitter for iPhone I CAN'T BREATH ... 286,2K

On December 31st, TIkToker[7] @drawing_mental_ill drew haphephobia, garnering over 1.4 million views in 10 months (shown below, left). On March 19th, 2022, TikToker[8] @lin_draws__ posted a video of herself drawing anxiety, garnering over 203,000 views in seven months (shown below, right).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7047877793476021551
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7076943091965431082

On October 27th, 2022, TikToker[9] @ellisharshbarger22 posted an ironic version of the trend where she draws lactose intolerance as if it's a mental disorder, garnering over 4 million views in four days (shown below, left). That day, she posted another ironic version to TikTok[10] where she draws IBS as if a mental disorder, garnering over 4 million views in the same span of time (shown below, right). On October 28th, Twitter[11] user @oluwatoji posted screenshots of the lactose intolerance video, garnering over 562,000 likes and 66,000 retweets in three days.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7158868470585838894
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7159019981299125546

Various Examples


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7159680878510230830
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7160128173932449070
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7111075725603572997
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7159932379396607238

Drawings Made By People With Mental Illness

Drawings Made By People With Mental Illness is an exploitable photoshop meme featuring a collection of black and white sketches depicting unsettling figures with a third image added to the lower right corner. Typically the photoshopped image is poorly drawn or funny and often references other memes. The two artists whose drawings are used in the format do not have mental illnesses despite the association with the meme.

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