This was one of the worst nights I’ve had in a long time, but I survived it. Not without help, though.
Please don’t ever think you have to tackle everything on your own. When you need assistance, reach for it.
This was one of the worst nights I’ve had in a long time, but I survived it. Not without help, though.
Please don’t ever think you have to tackle everything on your own. When you need assistance, reach for it.
Most of the people who have seen me perform know me for having a big, powerful voice but often when I sing for myself I take a different approach.
I think this started because I felt self-conscious in my last living arrangement, but it’s becoming another way for me to connect to music. Sometimes a song needs to be shouted, but sometimes it’s nice to just let it float.
If you are also a survivor, there is help. You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you for feeling the way you do and you are not broken beyond repair.
Below are a few places I have turned since finally beginning to confront this over the last two months.
When I’m in a relationship, my partners have always appreciated my ability to remember dates and anniversaries. I mark them with special events and appropriate fanfare.
As a single guy, sometimes this tendency is less helpful.
Bars are good places to make wordy, scribbled comics.
A very rough evening for me. I’m quite proud of the drawing tonight, even if I now find the sentiment a little over the top.
But the whole point of this daily project is to capture things as they are, not as I would like them to be.
This was a place that felt spiritual to me on a replenishing day that I desperately needed.
Too drunk, mad, and sad to do a decent comic. But capturing the moment was still important to me.
When describing this to a loved one, I told her this was the way a person suffering from Depression’s brain lies to them. Anxiety makes you fear the worst, despite all evidence to and desire for the contrary. Depression sometimes makes you wish for it.
But it isn’t real. And I don’t listen.
Our shared insomnia has always made bonding with my mother easy.