Diary Comics: Week 16

Instagram caption: The dark mood descended pretty quickly, seemingly out of nowhere, and I did very nearly give the comic up. I’m not sure why I woke up this morning and decided to keep drawing, but here we are. Today I will be decreasing my dose of the antidepressant again, and hopefully there will be no adverse effects. As for the job front… exhausted just thinking about it, so we’ll continue to take that one step at a time.

Instagram caption: Considering how low I have been today… AND the fact that I started my period and spent a large portion of the day in pain, I had the strength and determination of a superhero, because I did ALL of the things, and I left the chocolates alone! I’m seriously impressed with myself actually. Go Zara 😊 … If anyone is thinking of giving up today, try carrying on for a bit longer, you might surprise yourself!

That was the final diary comic I published online until after the New Year… but I tried to carry on drawing…

Sorry, it’s a bit grim, but you know me by now - cue violins.

What you’ll notice, is that I can’t seem to escape the idea that people are reading my comics, which is something I find amusing, because I literally don’t have an audience anymore!

Then things started to get a bit cryptic and vague…

It’s like I was afraid of sharing any real detail about what had happened. I probably knew on some level that I still wanted to publish the comic strips, and didn’t want to draw any details that I wouldn’t be able to share at a later date.

But then it was like I realised that actually, because nobody was reading, I could be as weird or abstract as I wanted… so I took myself into outer space.

I think what was really going on this week was that I had a wild emotional ride, and wanted to express that without sharing what had actually happened, because that bit wasn’t really relevant.

Things did go back to normal though. And yes, to end on a lighter note, I did end up eating my mum’s birthday chocolate - but it wasn’t my fault…

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