Anxiety is always something I have had to coexist alongside, even from a young age. One of my earliest memories is refusing to go to school because I feared my bullies- I was too anxious to go into school alongside them out of fear of what they would do. In recent years, I have had much more menacing fears on my mind- and this project intends to delve deeper into these fears and their origins, as well as explaining how they affect me on a daily basis.

 

My project, titled ‘Violet Violence’, is a detailed break-down of these anxieties- The fears addressed range from common fears such as Thalassophobia (the fear of the deep bodies of water) to more serious fears, such as Somniphobia (the fear of going to sleep) and Athazagoraphobia (the fear of being abandoned or left behind). While some of these fears may seem much greater than others, they all affect me negatively- Some only affect me in specific circumstances while others plague my thoughts constantly.

 

Overall, this series serves as a window to peek into my head to give the reader an insight to the issues I face on a day to day basis- obstacles that have been placed there by my own brain.