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I was blown away by the support on my previous post about mental illness, so I thought I would make another one with my new drawings.

I’ve been living with mental illness for as long as I can remember, and it brings many weird and dark thoughts.

I’m really bad at explaining these thoughts, so I started doing it through drawing which has always been a lot easier for me.

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I reached out for professional help 3 years ago when it became too hard for me to hide my problems and handle them. Now, I see a psychiatrist regularly and have medication to take daily. My treatment changed a lot in the last 3 years because finding the right medication can take a long time. However, it's not useless. Even though many told me they would have lost hope and given up. It's very hard to stay patient when in pain but eventually I saw an improvement.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me it's because I'm too anxious to speak to a complete stranger about my problems. It takes a lot of courage to seek help.

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Drawing aside, I try to find comfort in music, writing down my thoughts and talking to my friend. The latter helps a lot.To me, staying alone is the worst way to deal with these things.

Also, hearing "just be positive" or other random advice (please, stop with the mediation) is not helpful at all. It depresses me even more. I feel guilty because that doesn't work for me.

I would also like to add that everyone experiences depression and anxiety in different ways, and there is no one magic solution. Everyone's path to recovery is different.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. That's what gets me down. I'm fine. I just worry about everyone else.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why I I go to bed listening to Brainsync and other medition on headphones. Otherwise my nights are filled with thought racing and days seem scary.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Managing mental illness is exhausting. This is so accurate.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've worked so long to cultivate the facade of a kind of carefree goofy person that sometimes I wonder what my real self is like...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dont use social media like Facebook because I know everyone is doing better that I know. Don't need reminders that I f****d my life up

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every night... here's my little prayer: "Please, whoever is out there. I do not ask for much. I just ask that I close my eyes for the last time tonight and drift off. Please do not let me wake up. Thank you."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have somatic anxiety so when I get upset about something I can go from throwing up to seizures and everything in between hot sweats cold sweats passing out you name it somatic anxiety is one of the worst mental disorders I think anyone could be burdened with

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was told by "friends" in University: "Don't actually tell people how you're feeling. They just want to see you smile, just BE HAPPY for crying out loud. You're just driving people away by being down" - well... thank you and welcome to unhealthy coping mechanisms...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, it often feels my depression is making me waste my time on earth...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg I know how this is. I didn't know anyone else knew what it's like to be tired yet u get sleep.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This I understand completely, I am seriously struggling with motivation. This year has been bloody awful with my depression.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least depression is something being acknowledged there... while many country in Asia didn't. We don't even know where to seek help without being viewed as weak and crazy, family and friends reaction varies from... there's no such thing as depression, it's just over thinking, stop putting unnecessary pressure on yourself, don't hide it, talk it out, it will make you better... to... stop self pitying! They don't understand sometime it just out of our control.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is such an important thing! I put on a pretty good farce most of the time and my friends don't usually see the real s**t that is going on. Add the fact that I'm bipolar and that they sometimes get to see the SUPER happy me... this makes it even harder for them to understand.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i have the opposite issue, but it still sucks. i understand ❤︎

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My old boss was just like this, even though he was supposed to have had depression when his wife died.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i have a problem with this. i have spoken to many song writers and poets, and really, the song is whatever you want it to be. for example, a choral director and composer explained to us about how he wrote the melody to a poem, and in his mind it was about his insomnia. however, the original poem was about the crucifiction of christ. in his mind, it is still about finding rest after sleepless nights. my point is; no matter what the writer had in mind, the song's sentimental value to you, is yours. it means whatever you want it to.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My boyfriend is 24 years my elder so there's that... he's definitely gonna die before me and then I'll truly be alone. I cant even legally live with him due to subsidized housing rules

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My most common nightmare is watching the few family I have and or my boyfriend who is the only non family I know walking away and not looking back

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I've been their. Instead of a cliff, it's a bottle, but it never seems to leave.

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