The Hanged Man in tarot respresents many things - wisdom, prophecy and sacrifice. My depiction of the hanged man is of my great-great aunt Myrtle, who was declared insane after the birth of her child and commited to a psychiatric hospital in the 1940s. Myrtle's condition was ever explicitly described but it was always assumed she had postnatal depression. Looking back, I wonder if she was like me. I have a psychotic illness, thought to be schizophrenia or something adjacent, that was triggered by stress. Without any other cases of psychosis in my family, I look back to Myrtle and wonder if she experienced something akin to what happened to me. I decided to depict the experience of postnatal psychosis in my artwork. This is why the nurses are evil, taking away her baby from her, and why there are pieces missing from her body, representing the fragmentation of her perception of reality. She wears a straight jacket, which was a common custom for agressive or dangerous patients at the time and a faint child clutches at her hair, like a hallucination. Words are scrambled and faint in the background, representing auditory hallucinations and word salad, which is seen with poverty of speech in some patients with psychosis.