Friends who trivialize your mental illness are not friends
Friends who don’t attempt to understand your mental illness are not friends
Friends who shame you for your mental illness are not friends
Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone
I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently
Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it
in between
this animation is just too cute and a great analogy for anxiety
“don’t be shy” thanks u cured me
“just chill out” wow whered my anxiety go?
“smile, be happy” depressions finally gone, why did i not think of that?
HUHU Pillow by Cool Enough Studio
“The starting point of designing ‘HUHU’ is for encouraging people to get emotional compensation by using the object. Many people have their unconscious / fidgeting behaviour including chewing nails, shaking legs so on. ‘HUHU’ try to help people to be relaxed by pulling out strings from the inner surface of the cushion to play with them. The end results of unconscious behaviour make ‘HUHU’ beautiful. The name & metaphor ‘HUHU’ comes from the moment of people deep breathing when they relax.”
if you have anxiety and you do a thing like get out of bed or call your mom back or go to the grocery store or go take that exam or give a presentation i’m really proud of you and if you don’t do that stuff i’m still super proud of you for existing!!!!
(Source: dangimpala)
