Monday, January 23, 2012

Patrick knocked depression off my wall.

Well, OUR wall now, I suppose. Since we done got hitched and all that jazz.

I had three pictures hanging in the hallway, each representing a stage in this cracked out mental cycle that I go through. In descending order, they illustrate hypomania, mixed states, and depression. Patrick brushed by them as he was going to the guest room, and Depression fell off the wall. The frame broke but the glass in it didn't, and the print was unharmed. Now when you look at the wall, all you see are hypomania (exhilaration) and mixed states, with no depression.

All three of these are prints by the lovely and talented Melissa Nucera of ThisYearsGirl on Etsy.  I first ran across her art years ago on deviantART, a wonderful resource for imagery of all types. You can find some amazing stuff on that site if you have the time and inclination to dig. I've only linked to this artist's personal deviantART page on here, but there is a massive database with millions of contributors. You just have to poke around.

These are the ones that are meaningful to me in particular:

Exhilaration
Mixed states
Depression
Of course it would take Prince Charming to get rid of my lowest moods without even trying...

5 Comments:

Jennifer said...

Beautiful story.

And go Patrick!

Margaret said...

I like them all--but you are so happy with Patrick that I think he was meant to knock depression off the wall!! :)

Kacey said...

That is so sweet.

+Rei Bathory+ said...

I'm so glad that depression has been knocked off of your wall, and seemingly, out of your life, darling! <3 Those are some nice pictures, by the way! I totally feel the gloom! ^^ I'm so happy that you're happy, darling. It makes me hopeful for myself one day... Have a lovely day, darling! <3 <3 <3 *

+Rei Bathory+

Rachel Noel said...

That's amazing! Good job, Patrick :)