I’m borrowing from schema therapy, which is the main therapy model that my therapist and I are using. But it’s been very effective in pulling out some major parts of my brain, and given many insights into the various functions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been an interesting experiment trying to choose Chinese/Mandarin characters that are simple enough to convey what I want to talk about, and then to choose the words to fill the strokes needed to write the character. But perhaps for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The idea is to use our senses just to force the mind to pay attention to the surroundings and the body. Take the mind back to the present. Breathe to overcome the short, panicked breaths that come with an episode.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by stuff? Need to stop, take a breath? What if that stuff just keeps coming? What if you carry all that stuff, and it just keeps beating down, step by morbid step, until you’re bent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When tasks overwhelm, sometimes it’s because the brain cannot cope with all the inputs and stays stuck on the fact that there’re so many inputs, so many consequences and so many possible outcomes. So breaking down the tasks into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not difficult to overwhelm someone who tends to overthink things as part of their mental health struggle. This is quite common amongst depression sufferers. Non sufferers can exhibit and exercise their resistance to these issues by unhealthy means (losing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I drew this with tears in my eyes. It’ll be 5 years this year and I’m still wondering if I’m faking it… *Wipes tears* *Takes deeper breaths* Let’s carry on fighting.
It’s not that I can’t take compliments or even due credit for my work. It’s that I prefer to deflect it with humour, point out why I don’t deserve it, refuse to accept that I had anything to do with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of my comics change as I draw them. This was one of them – and I ended up drawing two aspects of anxiety and depression in. Depression can have us think the worst of ourselves, and anxiety has us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So often this is the reality. So much work is done with the brain noise and simply coping with it, that those who struggle with mental health issues are exhausted by day’s end. Also, note that I didn’t even show[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…