I started art therapy on my own as a way to communicate with myself and as an emotional release. My emotional vocabulary leaves a lot to be desired and I find using terms for emotions to be difficult when mine feel much more abstract.
The two drawings above were both attempts at capturing a common sensation that I experience. It's a pressured feeling that seems to haunt me on a regular basis. I'm not sure if it originated with a physical sensation, like the feeling of another person's body during sexual abuse, or from an emotional sensation, like feeling pressured to do or be a certain thing. I still haven't quite figured that out. The pictures seem to suggest both.
The squiggly lines at the top of both pictures are the feeling of isolation or separation from the rest of my consciousness. The words are pretty self explinatory. The first one in particular represents a lot of dissociation. I believe this is why I have the sensation, but no memory to go along with it.
I'm not sure about the rest of the picture. I did my best at capturing how I felt, but even down on paper it doesn't make total sense to me.
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