I Find It Hard To Explain What It’s Like To Live With Depression, So I Draw It

I have a high functioning type of severe depression, meaning that I still keep up with the tasks expected from me to appear outwardly normal. It’s an endless effort to put on the facade, but I’ve become very good at it.

I still believe telling others puts a burden on them, though all my friends and psychiatrists have said the contrary. When people ask me “how do you feel?” and actually want a genuine answer, I struggle to find the words. And thus, the drawings became a communication tool to show the turmoil below the surface.

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#1 Shadows Of My Mind Closing In

#2 Stay Away In Case I Hurt You..

#3 Good Things Are There… I Can’t Feel Any Of Them

#4 So Empty

#5 So Far From Everyone

#6 I Have The Key To The Quick Exit… Do I Use It?

#7 Burning In Fire… But Don’t Come Near

#8 Force A Smile

#9 Tug ‘O’ War… Pulls From Either Side Hurt Just As Much

#10 Tipping Balance

#11 Reaching Out… So Painful

#12 Falling

#13 True Reflections

#14 I Spread Gloom

#15 Shadow Has Taken Over My Heart

#16 Creeping Up

#17 Struggling On The Tightrope

#18 The Weapon Can Kill Us Both

#19 Trapped By My Own Shadow

#20 Shower Of Darkness

#21 Can’t Catch All The Fragments

#22 I Have To Go Where The Shadow Pulls Me

#23 Stranglehold

#24 Weight Of The Shadow

#25 Hanging On

#26 I Want Rid Of This Tangled Mess

#27 Which Way To Go?

#28 Feeble Fighting

#29 Melting Into The Shadow, Spreading Darkness

#30 Heart Has Burst Away