Whenever I Was Having An Anxiety Attack, I Started Drawing, Here Are 35 Of My Doodles

This one is so cute

This one’s my favorite so far!

Klasse

Yes, yes, it's like trying to get the air you need to breathe, not knowing if you will make it.

very sad

Reminds me if the time I knew I’d drown if I nobody heard me calling.

It's like shes sinking into a bath

It´s me every morning

devouring sadness...

So sad

Go get 'em.

“Though she be tiny, she is fierce”. I’m sorry, I don’t know where or whom the quote is from, but it seems to fit. I love the picture.

Yes

I love this one! She reminds me of Fearless Girl. <3

this one is so fantasy-like, and reminds me a lot of a story I'm writing

Did you notice that these octupus legs make an eye

This is really good!! I respect your art its really really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here I sit trying to compartmentalise every different aspect with the hope that each on their own will be much less overwhelming. Maybe I’m trying to make life the big picture and split all the turmoil into little pictures that are seen less often perhaps in the way we walk through a gallery - only able to see or sense a limited amount ar any one time.

Rescuing yourself. We actually can be our own hero. We are every day we choose life.

We do become attached to the things that hurt us and keep us oppressed. I think it’s because we live with them so long. The monster is less and less harmful though…or is it?

I see a few things in this one. I see lots of cymbals - the worst sound in the drum kit and I want to thrash them all in an attempt to release all the tension I’ve got built up. The old cliche about feeling like a mushroom and everyone feeds one nothing but s@#t. A whole lot of barstools but still the one loner at the end of the bar trying to drown in one’s drink.

I love looking at a starry sky a long way out of the city where so many more can be seen. It gives me a sense of peacefulness that sometimes helps me find some inner calm to quell my anxiety.

Ouch! :-(

Painfully real

I truly honestly relate. I draw when I'm in an emotional state, and usually when my double depression kicks in, the drawings get extremely dark and creepy and sometimes scary

Her hair is like a midnight sky...I love the idea!

You made it

I love the feeling this evokes

I saw this one as representing layers - sort of like one for each aspect that forms our anxiety.

This one is my favorite, just b/c I relate to it so much. It's the scary feeling that sometimes hits when I wake up in the middle of the night during a stressful time in my life. It's not a good feeling.

This is oddly comforting to me. I frequently say that I’m at my edge or wits end or at the brink of my emotions and that feeling scares me. However, I see her staring right into her void like “And what?! You’re beautiful”.

This is the first drawing where she has a bit of an expression :-)

Feeling trapped, me too

quarantine vibes

i LOVE the surrealism

I fainted in the hospital and the feeling of being in a dark rook with sounds bouncing off the space was a terror. I hated being in that state for I thought God had forgotten me or did not exist. Do not want to go there again.

These are doodles? I think its a work of art

This painting gives me anxiety

this is me now. I used to be a people person but now I prefer to be alone or spend time with animals.

Oh boy, if I could really fly far away from everything that troubles me.

Though there are things that will always haunt me, I’m thankful that eventually I can somehow reach my little island of inner peace.

It’s the scary thing ironically being the comforting thing because it’s the only consistent feeling have.

OH NO! :o( Pls. don't.

I understand this

What if it isn’t a noose? It has blooms, it could be a vine where someone rescues her out of that ideation. Please talk this out with someone. We are touched by your artistic outlet. I pray you are well!

Sad...

This one goes a little too far :-(