photo-therapy

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

New Zealand | Thursday, July 4, 2013 | 3 photos

I'm Jacinda Reilly, I'm 18 years old; I’m a kiwi. I have a soul hungry for knowledge & a desire for seeing new places & meeting new faces. Photography has been my saviour, I was suffering from severe anxiety disorder & I had symptoms I could not control. E.g. panic attacks, pseudo seizures & disassociation. It was very intense. The one thing that kept me intact & pulled me out the other side of my depression was photography. Every single time I'm in the process of taking a photo I enter another world & everything I'm thinking or feel disappears, to me it is very therapeutic. When I look at the photos I have taken I feel the scene and its story. Whenever I'm feeling down I use my camera for photo-therapy. When I have studied photography my goal is to teach photo-therapy & send out a positive message that “Yes this is hard, but it will pass.” I want to inspire & prove there is hope and joy through vision. So why not start with Jason Edward? I want to be mentored by one of the best! I get excited thinking about it. I can taste it on the tip of my tongue; I can feel it on the tip of my fingers! I would happily scream how much I want this experience till the whole wide world heard me and understood! Thanks.