This is a part of a group of self portraits I shot to try to describe with images what I couldn’t express with words. These all represent the way I feel in my body during my periods of depression and anxiety, this is the way that I express visually how it makes me feel. This one in particular represents the suffocation, pressure and fogginess that I feel when I enter my anxiety spirals. This was shot a few months ago but I really have been going through it for years. I now know how to deal with these periods in a more effective way. My trick is to not fight these but instead allow myself to go through it observing it from the outside and not allowing myself to feel guilty for how I’m feeling and just give myself a safe space to heal where I can exist free from my own or others judgements. Mental health is very complicated and very specific to every person and sometimes you can’t really see it from the outside, that’s why I try and see everyone from a place of understanding, thinking that they also might be going through something. I see myself as a vulnerable, sensitive and strong woman and I feel proud to be able to speak about how I feel because I know so many people go through similar things and aren’t able to open up about it. You are not alone and there’s so many tools and people that can help make you feel better ❣️