My finished work. This piece started out as a joke about how I was afraid of coloring my artwork and

My finished work. This piece started out as a joke about how I was afraid of coloring my artwork and quickly became a piece about anxiety and fear of failure. This piece is more personal than most, I was unsure about posting it at first and even more so about explaining it. I believe that artwork doesn’t necessarily need explaining, however I think it’s incredibly important to talk about mental illness. Late last year I finally got the help I needed to deal with my Social Anxiety/Phobia and Depression. I had spent around 20 years of my life telling and teaching myself that I was weak, a coward, lazy, and worthless. I don’t think I would have ever have found the courage to ask for help if I hadn’t already known someone who suffered like me and had gotten help. Even still asking for help was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but probably the most rewarding. I am incredibly grateful that anxiety had been an increasingly talked about thing in the past few years, but I wish some attention could be drawn to social anxiety. Ive been aware of anxiety for a while and since I could only relate to some of the issues I continued to reason that it was only me. That’s why I decided to speak up because the more people who talk about it the more people will recognize their symptoms and hopefully seek help. I’m not saying you have to or you need to, but you shouldn’t have to be afraid about talking about it if you want to. Remember that your mental illness isn’t you but it’s not something you should be ashamed of and you don’t listen to people who think you should “just get over it”. Your feelings and your emotions are valid and don’t ever let anyone tell you differently. -- source link

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