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::Hugs::

*hugs back*

oh man... if you need someone to vent to... im here... ive battled with depression bipolar and so much other shtuff... seriously.. please note me..

Thank you for taking the time to respond to a total stranger and express your concern and care. It means the world to me, and makes me thankful to know there are such good people out there trying to look out for others.

The art is of a 'darker' note as a reflection of my emotions, but art is how I express those things so I can keep them in check and make sure I don't turn to... alternatives, like some people do.

I sympathize with you and your own struggle. I live with chronic health issues myself, and huge financial worries added atop them is really what brought most of this on.

If I ever need someone to talk to, I'll keep your offer in mind. Likewise extend the offer to you if you ever need an ear. It's normally what I do for others on a regular basis.

this is much appreciated ^^ unfourtunately i did go down the alternative road.. got help tho... better for the most part... even if you are a complete stranger, when i see something like this it worries me...

Glad to hear you were able to get help and support and are fairing better for it. I too get worried when I see things like this, and I tend to go looking a little deeper just to see if it's someone in real need of help, as you did.

I know what it feels like to be at the very bottom and feel like you have nothing left and are all alone. I'd never wish that on anyone else, ever.

We just have to take things one day at a time, and try to remember when when we think we have hit the bottom and have nowhere else to go, the only place we can go is right back up again.

Depression is a burden most heavy and misunderstood. The gods know it's haunted my steps my whole life... Making art such as this does help, friend. Paint what you feel, even if it's just angry color splatters. That's your heart speaking. :3

Thank you for sharing this insight. Indeed it is. It's strange because I don't really think of it as being depressed or feel depressed per say, though by technical definition I suppose it falls under that category.

My woes that sparked this lean more toward years of endless financial problems and the constant string of things that I have been dealing with for so many years after losing everything in Katrina and never having had a chance to fully recover or rebuild a normal life. It's likely led to my chronic health issues in some fashion, and still continues to rear its ugly head just when we think we are able to stay afloat.

I sympathize for you and other friends who have had to deal with varying degrees of things all their life.

It's actually a common practice of mine to create ( destroy ) things in some fashion or another when I get like this, and it does help. I'm glad I am not the only one who does it, and others recognize the therapy in it. It's hard to explain to someone unless perhaps they have actually done it.

I have had so many pieces of paper with angry pencil or paint slashes, splatters, splotches, smears, and everything in between. Sometimes I rip things apart, be it blank paper or used paper with those markings. Cardboard suffers very often under my wrath, slashed with my x-acto knife or other tools of trade.

I think that's also a reason why I like sculpting so much. I can smash and pound and pulverize the clay as I am conditioning it. There have been many times figures I have been working on have met an unfortunate end. Some of my friends giggle about it, and sketch jokes have been done of "LHUNIE SMASH!!".

When I look at it all afterwards, I recognize the expression and emotion, see it for more than what others would see it for. But I never have bothered to.. document... any of it. Because most people probably wouldn't consider it 'art'. They'd just see it as a mess, one way or another.

In my eyes art can be anything and everything, and for me, it always has been. But I see the world very differently than most people tend to.

*hugs tight* I'm here if you need to talk, hon. <3

::Hugs tight and glomps:: Thank you Swan-sis. You and Sayh have always been here, and I am thankful for you both. I was actually thinking over some things earlier, and saw one of your other notes about wishing you could help. I think maybe there is a way that you can, that will prove perhaps fun for us all. I know you are away for a few days, so just drop me message whenever you return and have time to chat. ::Wingsnugs::

I thought things were looking up though?! Are you okay????