A nefarious depiction of the affliction by Erik Baumann.

Spooky, strange, but probably an accurate portrayal of schizophrenia feels like on the inside.

This piece, entitled "Motifs of Mania," depicts schizophrenia as a shadowy menace.

Karen May Sorensen recently began pushing the boundaries of her "madness," by posting drawings and paintings on her blog while on varying levels of medication.

This piece captures the auditory hallucinations associated with the disease.

This schizophrenic artist feels trapped by it all.

Johfra Draak drew this in 1967, depicting a schizophrenic Dante's Inferno.

Another by Draak. Notice the two headed subjects in both pieces.

"Electricity Makes You Float" by Karen Blair, a woman living with schizophrenia.

Notice the variety of moods, the cyst-like creatures growing out of this man's head, representative of the confusion schizophrenia can sometimes bring.

This insanely intricate drawing was done by Edmund Monsiel, an artist in the early 1900's believed to have been a schizophrenic.

This drawing was found in an old asylum, its artist was a paranoid schizophrenic.

This artist suffers from a rare case of paranoid schizophrenia that causes him to have visual hallucinations. One of these visions is a figure named "Wither," shown below.

In 1950, Charles Steffen began compulsively making art like this on wrapping paper from inside a mental hospital. His obsession with transformation is very clear.

A series of paintings of cats by Louis Wain from the early 1900's. They capture a slow descent into varying levels of schizophrenic episodes.

This does look like a nightmare.

These two photos were done by an unknown schizophrenic artist trying to capture the abstract nightmare of his thoughts.