Artwork / Everything’s Fine / Trying to Be Better

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There are times when I think I’ve got a handle on my issues. I’ll go through a long period of not feeling rejected or consumed with anger—two of the main expressions of my mental health problems—and I’ll feel like I’m soaring. But then it all comes back again. At this point, my goal isn’t to rid myself of my anchor, just to make it ever smaller.

Trying to Be Better makes me think of this painting of a beaver, both for the underwater cross-section element and for the reminder that, under the surface, things are often more complicated than they might seem.