{"id":119,"date":"2013-12-18T17:09:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/?p=119"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:09:51","slug":"even-more-cartoons-this-time-about-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/en\/even-more-cartoons-this-time-about-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more cartoons&#8230; this time about anxiety."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Maria for sending me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/erinchack\/comics-that-capture-the-frustration-of-anxiety-disorders\">this link to a buzzfeed page<\/a>, with loads of great cartoons about anxiety. \u00a0I&#8217;ll not copy them here, as the buzzfeed page has already done the hard work.<\/p>\n<p>One of them led me to a blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sad girl scribbles<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>by a girl called Gaby at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/virtualgirlfriend.tumblr.com\/\">virtualgirlfriend.tumblr.com<\/a>, which contains a plethora of drawings touching different issues including anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>One of many that I particularly liked was this one, which deals nicely with the tension between wanting to abolish difficult feelings and needing emotions to be human:<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"121\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/en\/even-more-cartoons-this-time-about-anxiety\/sadgirlscribbles-plants\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?fit=986%2C1273\" data-orig-size=\"986,1273\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sadgirlscribbles-plants\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?fit=232%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?fit=660%2C852\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-121\" alt=\"sadgirlscribbles-plants\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?resize=604%2C779\" width=\"604\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?resize=793%2C1024 793w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?resize=232%2C300 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sadgirlscribbles-plants.jpg?w=986 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a>Plants may not have feelings&#8230; but\u00a0I think I&#8217;ve made a few plants look pretty sad. \u00a0They definitely look happier when they&#8217;ve had a little love and affection &#8211; or at the very least least sun, clean water and good food; all of which I can relate to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Maria for sending me this link to a buzzfeed page, with loads of great cartoons about anxiety. \u00a0I&#8217;ll not copy them here, as the buzzfeed page has already done the hard work. One of them led me to a blog: sad girl scribbles by a girl called Gaby at\u00a0virtualgirlfriend.tumblr.com, which contains a plethora of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/en\/even-more-cartoons-this-time-about-anxiety\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even more cartoons&#8230; this time about anxiety.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,18,2,17,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-anxiety","category-bipolar","category-depression","category-media","category-mental-health-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Even more cartoons... this time about anxiety. - ferguskane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/en\/even-more-cartoons-this-time-about-anxiety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Even more cartoons... this time about anxiety. - ferguskane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks Maria for sending me this link to a buzzfeed page, with loads of great cartoons about anxiety. \u00a0I&#8217;ll not copy them here, as the buzzfeed page has already done the hard work. 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