![Panel one of a four-panel comic called 'Reclaiming reality', consisting of thick black line drawing and hand written text against a mottled grey and white background. A block of text in the top half of the panel says "That morning I woke up sweaty in my small room. When I walked outside, someone announced it was time for meds." In the top right corner of the panel is an orange circle. In the lower half of the panel are seven undulating black lines in close parallel, reminiscent of a musical stave. The splodges of colour, in orange, green and purple, are spaced along the lines like musical notes. A question mark cuts across each of the 'notes'.](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/03cf889e-4200-465d-aaaf-873aa93ddd4d_dissonance+27.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel two of a four-panel comic called 'Reclaiming reality', consisting of white line drawing and hand written black handwritten text against a mottled grey background. Text in the top half of the panel says "In four motions,". Beneath this is a row of four crudely drawn cups with the numbers 1,2,3,4 written above them. Cup 1 is the right way up and has an arrow pointing upwards next to it. Beneath it is written "lift meds". Cup 2 is upside down and has an arrow pointing down next to it. Beneath it is written "empty in mouth". Cup 3 is right way up and has an up arrow next to it. Text beneath it says "life water". Cup 4 is upside down and has a down arrow next to it. Text beneath it says "empty in mouth".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/f0393195-6b8f-4e28-a296-09886d79a060_dissonance+28.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel three of a four-panel comic called 'Reclaiming reality', consisting of two blocks of handwritten text on white background, surrounded by a mottled grey background. The block of text in the top half of the panel says "I discovered the strange, machine-like nature of the human brain. I had found it so agonizingly hard to return from psychosis to reality." The block of text in the lower half of the panel says "Now I could swallow some beige capsules, and the capsules did much of the work for me? It all seemed strange to the point of science fiction.". Between the two blocks of text is a row of four oval shapes coloured in beige, representing tablets.](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/51a12533-f18e-42bf-9ce0-a571930e1b22_dissonance+29.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel four of a four-panel comic called 'Reclaiming reality', consisting of thick black line drawing and hand written text against a mottled grey and white background. The text at the top of the panel says "I lay down on my bed before breakfast and tried to pull different strands in my head together." Beneath this is a crudely drawn figure lying flat on a bed looking up, their left arm raised up next to their head on the bed. the bed is surrounded by the words: career, disability, family, grandmother, friends, religion, madness and Jewish. The words are connected to other words by thin black lines that cut across the bed and the figure.](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/657192f4-ee52-4064-a9e5-d5794682683c_dissonance+30.jpg?w=1020&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
Reclaiming reality. © Andrew Field for Wellcome Collection.
About the artist
Andrew Field
(he/him)
Andrew Field is a cartoonist, poet, singer-songwriter and librarian based in Southeast Michigan. He is currently finishing up a graphic novella about living with schizophrenia called ‘The Light-Haunted Museum’, which can be found on his website.