10 Alternative Drawings Depicting What People With Anxiety And Depression Go Through

by N/A, 9 years ago | 2 min read

Anxiety and depression have had no shortage of clinical analysis over the years. But despite decades of research and attention given, many people are still unaware of just how a person experiences them - in large part because those suffer from them have trouble explaining them.

Suffice it to say, it's no laughing matter...Unless of course you're British artist Gemma Correll, and can somehow make the daily pangs of anxiety and depression humorous.

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The thing with anxiety and depression is that sometimes you just don't feel like doing anything.

Like literally, nothing.

Other times, you can't help but overanalyze the hell out of things.

All the things, really.

Everyday occurrences can be living nightmares for people with anxiety...

And sometimes, depression feels like a place you'll just never be able to leave.

Meh. Just, meh.

People tell you to "relax" or "take control," but that usually only makes things worse.

Because the amount of feels going on inside you is nuts, and you're over here like, "holy shit, just calm down already."

"I honestly think that humour can be a saviour at times of distress or, if you just live with a constant level of anxiety and depression like I do," Correll tells Mashable.

Lots of people think depression only takes one form, but they'd be wrong about that too.

And anxiety rears its big dumb head in just as many ways.

"I do think that people should speak more freely about anxiety," the British artist adds.

The truth is, both anxiety and depression are dynamic, conniving bastards, and they need to be understood and seen for what they are.

"I know that I would have felt a little better as an anxiety-ridden teenager if I knew that I wasn't completely alone in my fears."

Thankfully, we have swell folks like Gemma Correll to explain them to everyone in pretty much the most perfect of ways.

Be sure to check out more of her wonderfully quirky work on her website!