Inktober Demons

Inspired by Lucy Bellwood's erstwhile Inktober theme of drawing the negative thoughts and insecurities that plague her, I thought I'd get a few of mine down on paper and out of my head, for the time being at least. It's remarkable how flimsy they look when you give them concrete words and limit them to an ink silhouette on a piece of paper.

( All 31 are stuffed in this box )

I can't say this has freed me from all of them – I am, at the moment, in a happy place where they don't bother me too much, but that could change again – but it has been valuable and therapeutic to encapsulate what's usually a formless toxic miasma. And hearing from others who have to deal with the same things has removed the power inherent in the belief that these are problems only I have to deal with because they grow uniquely out of my unique failings. Strength in numbers! Only you don't know your numbers if you never mention what might unite you ...