I Draw Illustrations Not To Be A Victim Of My Anxiety (23 Pics)

I’ve had anxiety for as long as I can remember. Like most children, I was scared of the dark, unsettled by shadows, afraid of the hallway after bedtime. All of those places were where monsters lived.

It wasn’t monsters I was scared of though. It was unknown. Monsters were just how my mind made sense of it. Most childhood fears are reasoned away by grown-up thoughts, but adulthood has its own collection of worries.

Responsibilities, expectations, commitments; these are just new masks on old monsters. When my heart races or skips a beat, or if I get shaky and nervous with an impulse to run, I have to remind myself that monsters don’t exist.

I do this by drawing- by giving the feeling shape I can give some finite form to the infinite unknown. If there’s a way out, it’s through a door I create.

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#1 Tears Only Feed It

#2 Wayward

#3 Under

#4 2:14pm

#5 Earthbound

#6 6:16pm

#7 6:53pm

#8 Gardener

#9 Mono No Aware

#10 Migraine

#11 Wings For The Fall

#12 As Above

#13 Consummatum Est

#14 What Once Was

#15 Diffuse

#16 The Weight

#17 Crescent

#18 Elicit

#19 If There’s A Way Out

#20 Abeyance

#21 Modern Conversation

#22 The Quiet

#23 Provocation Of Vision