DO YOU KNOW THE REAL ME? A REFLECTION ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Abstract

This exam project is a development of an idea of a body of work that began a year ago when I was working on my previous project when I decided to rework it and use it as my major project for my final exam. It is a topic that I hope to expand on in the future because it is a big subject that is always changing with new methods and ideas for treating individuals with psychiatric symptoms. In this work I'm using self-reflection in my personal experience when I connect with people who gives me their own experience and their daily experience with the use of medicines, social interaction, where behaviour is shaped, called in society the "normal" or accepted behavior. With this work, I will analyze numerous aspects of what I term social behavior, beginning with my own experience as a result of growing up in a place where social contact is considerably more open. The work is now grouped into three interconnected behavioral themes. The first subject is about layers of protection, which are walls we construct to shield our inner core as a result of trauma, family dynamics pressure, society, religion, or cultural differences. The second is about societal pressure, and the third is about thoughts and using pharmaceuticals to affect one's mental conduct. My work has frequently been linked with sentiments; either my personal feelings about a certain subject, or feelings transferred via the experiences of others I know, but also feelings about the collective identity. Working figuratively with the purpose of triggering in the viewer something recognizably familiar, circumstances encountered, or even self awareness about oneself