Most youth in 2021 are on antidepressants and/or anti-anxiety medicine. The pressure on the young to be impossibly perfect in order to be accepted or enough, has severely damaged the youth and their mental health; the pressures to be exceptionally smart, but not too smart or you’re cocky, skinny and beautiful but not too skinny, pretty but not too pretty. The undeniable shame that comes with being different or “not okay” eats us alive. The idea that admitting that you have a problem or that you aren’t perfect is scarier than the drugs we take and the death we chase.
Medium: Pencil crayons on illustration board Size: 11” x 14” Not for sale
