I Illustrate My Darkest Thoughts To Help People Understand What It’s Like To Suffer From Mental Illness (40 Pics)

Yep, spot on.

Thank you I needed this.

Anxiety becomes a sumo wrestler putting you in a choke hold, no matter how hard you fight, he still has you in that choke hold. Trapped. Unable to go anywhere.

This is me right now. I’m on medical leave and I feel guilty when I have fun with family.

My lifelong fantasy

this is so true

....Thank you.I'm not enough, I will never be enough, but thank you...

Sometimes anxiety just hits you like a f*****g train. Tackles you to the ground, pins you down, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it or shake it off.

It isn't always that easy to be positive, I just don't think some people understand that because depression is such a taboo topic, that no one is educated about it.

Just the world

I never thought that people would be so... self absorbed that they can't even...I don't know.

This can't describe it better.

Love is there when you need it most. ❤💕

I used to be like this. Painful.

I have days when I really can't get out of bed. Then I feel guilty for wasting my day and not being productive. Sometimes I just need a "free" day like this, I keep reminding myself.

People ask me "Are you okay?" and my anxiety tells me not to say that I'm' never okay because then they'll ask me why and I'll have to answer questions nobody has found answers to yet, and my depression will never allow me to be okay.

A picture of my life... Your art is beautiful by the way <3

I wish...

This one made me cry

true.

Depression wants to steal your life, like a possessive lover.

I wouldn't really call them a friend. A toxic one, maybe.

Well, the wolf thing at least looks kind of friendly.

I have a thing I like to call double depression. I'm always depressed, always sad. But sometimes for no reason, my depression gets so much greater that I can no longer even pretend to be happy or deflect it with humor or laugh with "friends" so they don't ask me about it.

mE

Thanks, Mom. Self hate often starts in childhood. Being repeatedly told for years that you are worthless scars you for life.

The time of day when you are alone with your thoughts, and nothing to distract you.

That's the last thing I can do: stay still. I feel like I need to get up and run away.

I remember feeling like this. Just getting from one appointment to the next. Sending a message back from where I am now to say it started to feel like a shorter time, and then it felt like 'What am I going to tell him about?' and then 'Perhaps I could go every two weeks' and then 'Perhaps I can take a break'. Things are looking much brighter now

Yeah, it's always an unpleasant surprise when old man anxiety crashes at your pad.

At least someone cares for you...

*raises glass of chocolate milk*

Without treatment there is no hope. Reach out for it and make it happen. You are worth it.

inside you

A killer of Hope.

It's probably thinking "Must step up the emotional torture"

Devious teamwork.

I´m taking it one day at a time. That´s how. Otherwise it becomes overwhelming.

Sweet victory

I couldn't tell you the number of appointments and obligations I have missed because of my illness.

Same thing but no text , no phone.

Jumping? Yes, actually. But not into a void. Maybe jumping in a particular rhythm. Maybe you can use some music to help you out. (Doesn't work for everyone, but sometimes it does, and it's harmless)

I have breakdowns in private. In my mind, or in a bathroom stall. I haven't cried in front of anyone but family for almost two years. That's why I don't think They believe me.

For me, depression is not tears. My depression is not being able to cry, to get it over with, get it done. My depression is the lack of tears, I can't get over it, and I have to sit with it, deal with it, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

These are so clever and insightful. It explains exactly how it is...thankyou for sharing your gift!

Please take your meds more regularly. Missing doses can cause worse depression than if you weren’t on them at all.

Me XD

Yeah, because it is that easy... /s

sometimes when I look in the mirror I don't feel like its me I'm looking at

Farrrrk... xx

Definitely not dying

People are bitches.

It IS like that aye... like a voice telling you all that stuff... ty!

heh. is it getting warm in here

You are ugly, so you are depressed, so you take antidepressants, so you are uglier...

A body is not too hard to open.

Glesbiace?

That's how I feel every time I get out.

"Being in a big crowd" is a totally real reason to feel stress.

...I feel attacked.