Did you ever seen the cat portraits by Louis Wain?

Link: http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/louis-wains-schizophrenic-art/

I really enjoyed looking at these paintings. My son painted 10 or more years ago when he used to smoke pot, then he stopped pot and didn't paint any more!

He has painted aboriginal dot art, maori tribal, copied Masters from small to a large size (I have some on my walls) and naive art. He is starting again, as I speak, with naive art. Has 40 tubes of colour, canvasses and I can't wait to see his first one ..:)

God, these are brilliant. I genuinely love them all. Especially the drawing of a study with only the artist's feet in the frame...That's the best idea for a self portrait I've ever seen.

You know, I've had my own forays into mental illness - still do and will, that won't change, I fear - and it appears to me that in a large part, the opinion of "healthy" people (and this is a wild generalisation, of course) is that mental illness equals mental ineptitude; that you are somehow less of a person - less good, less worthy, less human - if you suffer from any of the disorders that fall under the "mental illness" umbrella.

These works prove that that idea is just not true. How can it be? There is nothing more beautiful and flawed than a human being, and nothing other than a human being can create art such as this. Just because we can't all fit into the boxes that others want us to fall into, doesn't mean that we are not worthy of praise or can't have brilliant talent bestowed upon us.

End of rant.

That's the one...

Besides, if people have a problem with your mental illness, that's their issue, not yours.