I decided that I need to express my anxiety through drawing, and illustrate the different stages of my anxiety but to highlight the fact that even if I am calm and content, it doesn’t mean my anxiety has unattached itself from me.
I try to view my anxiety in a positive way, as a companion rather than as an enemy, because that way I can manage it better. I’ve accepted it is part of who I am.
© Jade Moore 2016
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
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This is really good and describes anxiety so well! I wouldn’t really consider anxiety my companion though.
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I did wonder about that bit before I wrote it, but I was trying to pinpoint the relationship I have with it at this very moment and I’m managing it well. Companion is a more positive word and maybe not the right one, but with this I mean companion as something/someone that is always there. Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I get it. It’s like it’s always around, just sometimes not being activated.
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Yeah. Part of how I try to deal with it being there is to try and look more at the positives that come from getting through it, because when I used to have it really bad it would just take over me and I’d feel like I was getting worse. So if I view it in a better way it helps me more.
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That’s good. Thanks for the advice. You went back to college today, right?
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I go back tomorrow 🙂 and that’s okay, I hope it will help.
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Have fun at school! What year are you in? If you don’t want to tell me, that’s okay.
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I’m in my third year, which is my final year! So hopefully I will graduate this year 😊 I don’t mind telling you.
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Although I don’t suffer from anxiety I thought companion made a whole lot of sense (I have friends with anxiety disorder). I know for me, being bipolar, I always have a companion or shadow, I just don’t know which it will be. I guess that was part of what I was trying to express in My Hero, My Nemesis.
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I’m glad it made sense! I tried to express all the different levels that anxiety affect me, and I’ve also managed to use my anxiety for the better, so although I hate having it sometimes and wish it would go away…without it I wouldn’t be who I am right now and in some ways I am grateful.
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Oh, it definitely makes sense and is super adorable too!
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Aww thank you, that made me smile! 😊
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Yay! Have fun! 🙂
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I shall try! Thank you 🙂
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I love your drawings, Jade! Makes sense to me. Even though I’m basically panic free, there are times I feel a panic attack sneaking up on me. I can control it. But… I always know, in the back of my mind, that panic attacks are part of me, and will never completely and totally disappear. I’ve taken a bit of a blogging break, but now am back, and look forward to catching up on Letters to the Mind! 🙂
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I’m glad you love my drawings! I used to do little comic style things like this all the time, but haven’t for ages. Luckily I got back into the style okay. Glad you’re back, enjoy catching up and there are a couple more contributions to come today and tomorrow.
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Great! I’ll take a look 🙂
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Hope you enjoy!
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