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I've had anxiety for as long as I can remember. Like most children, I was scared of the dark, unsettled by shadows, afraid of the hallway after bedtime. All of those places were where monsters lived.

It wasn't monsters I was scared of though. It was unknown. Monsters were just how my mind made sense of it. Most childhood fears are reasoned away by grown-up thoughts, but adulthood has its own collection of worries.

Responsibilities, expectations, commitments; these are just new masks on old monsters. When my heart races or skips a beat, or if I get shaky and nervous with an impulse to run, I have to remind myself that monsters don't exist.

I do this by drawing- by giving the feeling shape I can give some finite form to the infinite unknown. If there's a way out, it's through a door I create.

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Tears Only Feed It

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Shiek
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

6:16 pm. Not a lot of people know that 666 isn't the devils number. That was a mistranlation and the actual number is 616

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6:53pm

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Aileen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For some reason I’m fine with looking at spiders from nearby, but if one crawls on me, I’m out. Looking at this gives me chills.

Ellen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this relieves your anxiety bless you because it sure increases mine

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Mono No Aware

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Wings For The Fall

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Sarah Storm
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one really struck a chord with me. I see the images before this leading up to this, and this the horrible feeling afterward. I suffer from anxiety, and I know this feeling.

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As Above

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Consummatum Est

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LoveWinz
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In case anyone was wondering, this translates from latin to : It is finished

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Diffuse

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The Weight

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Crescent

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Elicit

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Abeyance

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Sarah Storm
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how the roots form a shape of a human. It's really impressive shadowing and I can tell a lot of effort was put into it.

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Modern Conversation

Modern Conversation

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The Quiet

The Quiet

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Sarah Storm
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Sometimes quiet is violent" - TOP, Car Radio Sometimes, being alone is horrible because if it's quiet your thoughts can absorb you.

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Provocation Of Vision

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