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Tokyo exhibition on schizophrenia: sparking heated discussion on ‘dirty and messy rooms’
The recent exhibition held at the Tokyo Tower titled ‘One out of 100 people completely immersed in the system experiences a world of integrated dysfunction!’ has attracted a lot of public attention. This exhibition aims to help visitors better understand this mental illness by reproducing the daily lives of individuals with schizophrenia.
However, a display in the exhibition that reproduced the “room for patients with schizophrenia” sparked heated online discussions due to “insufficient dirtiness and disorder”.
The ‘Room for Patients with Mental Disorders’ in the Exhibition
A room claimed to represent a patient with schizophrenia was recreated in the exhibition. The exhibition explains that patients with schizophrenia often have messy rooms, scattered items, and lack of organization due to a lack of life motivation and thinking ability.
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This statement quickly resonated on social media, with many netizens believing that the chaos in this room was far from ‘real’.
Netizens share ‘Really Dirty and Messy Room’
Inspired netizens began to share the truly dirty and messy rooms they had seen or experienced before. Some netizens have uploaded photos of their friends’ or their own rooms, where garbage piles up like mountains, items are scattered on the ground, and some are even filled with garbage bags, moldy food residues, and unbearable odors.
I’ve seen a really dirty and messy room (my friend) look like this
A netizen shared a photo of his friend’s room, which was almost completely covered by garbage, piled up so much that people couldn’t get close to the table.
Another netizen revealed that his friend’s room was filled with garbage, to the point where he had to fill 30 bags of garbage in a 45 liter garbage bag to barely clean up a corner.
These photos show the real ‘dirty and messy room’, which shocked many people.
Behind the Dirty and Messy Room: The Life Difficulties of Patients with Mental Disorders
Insomnia is a serious mental illness, in which patients often experience symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and confused thinking. At the same time, they also lose their motivation to live, making some basic activities in daily life (such as cleaning and tidying up the room) extremely difficult.
The exhibition attempts to recreate the daily living environment of patients and make the public feel the life difficulties brought by this disease.
However, netizens believe that the rooms in the exhibition are not enough to showcase the serious impact of this disease, which has sparked discussions about the authenticity of the “dirty and messy rooms”.
Reflections on Exhibitions: Differences in Public Understanding
Although the original intention of the exhibition was to raise public awareness of schizophrenia, the display of “dirty and messy rooms” has raised questions about the presentation of the disease. The discussion among netizens not only reveals their different understandings of “dirty and messy”, but also reflects the differences in public perception of mental illness.
I saw this situation when I went to see someone who borrowed 5 million yen from me before
Through these discussions, perhaps the exhibition can be further improved to showcase the lives of patients with schizophrenia in a more authentic and in-depth way, helping more people understand the complexity of this disease and the life difficulties of patients.
The exhibition on schizophrenia in Tokyo, although well intentioned, sparked widespread discussion among netizens regarding the presentation of “dirty and messy rooms”.
Although the rooms in the exhibition did not meet the expectations of some viewers for being “dirty and messy”, it successfully brought more attention and discussion to the lives of people with schizophrenia. Anyway, the true significance of the exhibition lies in arousing people’s attention to mental health, understanding, and helping patients living in difficult situations.