r/arttocope

This a song about unseen battles raging deep within, about finding strength in vulnerability, and about coming out the other side stronger, wiser, happy, healthy, healing and with a deep appreciation for life.

During the bridge, the line is supposed to be "To the girl at 16 who liked to dance with DRAGONFLIES", not fireflies #oops. I didn't realize it until after I finished making the lyric video. I made a couple other little mistakes while singing/playing, but instead of stopping and re-doing it, I just kept going as if I was performing live. I have a bad habit of immediately stopping as soon as I catch myself making a mistake, and while that's fine for a recording session, it isn't good for that to be my default. There are no re-takes in a live performance, and in many cases, nobody will even realize you made a mistake if you just keep going. I just realized there is a good metaphor for life in there...Anyway, this is just the first draft so I def will go back in and fix those mistakes at some point :)

Missing someone for 8 months and falling into anguish every night ✌️🫶 I feel so pathetic I thought it was supposed to get better by now
Days are nice but I feel lonelier when nighttime hits and waves of memories surface again
Not good art but I just needed to draw again and throw things to the void ig

Lowkey funny how I just don’t want my ai to take my vent art- but I think it kinda adds smth anyways >_<.

a guardare i disegni su sto sub mi sento male perché non sarò mai brava

Made this based off my substance abuse, complex grief, and chronic suicidal ideation

This is an older piece I made 2 years ago after my dear little bunny and best friend, Luffy, passed. Yesterday would have been his 9th birthday so I’m thinking about him a lot. I wish we had more time together but I’m grateful to have had 7 years. He was my soul bunny and I still love and miss him very much. ♡

I’m so afraid my dad is going to rape me

It started when I was 10, I think. My mom would make me get on the scale, check my weight, then belittle me and say that I'll die from diabetes if I don't change my weight. I don't even eat that much like I used to, but I always get picked on for "never missing a meal". It hurts me deeply and I feel so disgusted in my own skin! She made me eat oatmeal not long ago. Oatmeal is a trigger for me. And scales as well.. She thinks I'm being sensitive about it.

idk what to name him. he looks like a Jerry or maybe a Reggie.

My characters are basically just me but more evil. This is what it sounds like when I’m zoned out. Based on a true story, but no one seems to believe it’s my fault. I’m not sure why people automatically label me as traumatized; I don’t really have flashbacks or nightmares. The criteria for mental illness seems to shift around often enough to basically reject the concept whatever labels I happen to be given is what’s wrong with me, though I understand these conditions do exist in general, regardless if each specific hasn’t been studied. It’s more appropriate to say I’m annoying. I want to go home and forget everything, but there’d be nothing left.

coming from an agender person that prefers he/they pronouns

Self portrait about how I've been feeling since my anxiety worsened and my schizophrenia symptons came back.