Thanks! I am sorry for that feeling… I had it too many times in my life :-(
This drawing is from very long ago, around 30 years ago, actually… AFTER a suicide attempt. But I thought I was OK at that time, till I looked at the date today (date is cropped, as well as my signature).

Oh, you are such a big support! I upload these drawings mainly for you and Helene ;-) Thanks a lot, April, also for all those favorites… good for my fragile self-esteem, which goes downhill too often.

Thank you, Val!!

Thanks, Rabi!!

Thank you sooo much, Amarica! Hope you are not speaking from own experience… this pain is like the cancer of the soul, eating it up while on the surface all can seem OK… Glad I am not there at the moment.

Toda mikerev lev, Lior! Yes, my pain and emotional problems have been the main source of my art ;-) I suspect that’s the case with some more artists…

Thanks, Alan! Yes, I guess that’s what i am quite good at – giving a face to a feeling ;-)

Dankie, Michelle!

Well, sad is one of the strongest emotions, which touches you deep inside… me, at least.
I mean, there is no contradiction, lots of art is sad, isn’t it?

Don’t know how i missed your comment… Thanks, Tulay!!

Thank you, Ildi! Guess I had some painful moments at that time…

Well, I am glad you feel lucky about that ;) I had times in my life I regretted not succeeding in getting it all over with when “I had the chance” (enough of the right pills, I mean). I also had other times, in which I looked in amazement at all that I had learned, all that I had managed to do, all the new things in my life I could not have imagined happening when I all saw was my black hole of hopelessness… What I tend to remind myself these days, when the dark clouds gather over my head is “There is always tomorrow”. While tomorrow is no guarantee for something better happening, it is a possibility… and besides, even if nothing better happens, mostly my attitude towards the less good things does improve at times;)

Guess I missed this comment earlier…. Thanks so much, Rachael!

Thanks, Cora!

YEEEEEEEEEEES! :-)) tHANKS!

Thanks so much, Clare!

Glad you like it, Mikey:-)

Thanks a lot, Jen!! Much appreciated.

THANKS!! It was one of these dark moments….

Thanks so much, Elizabeth, for your deep comment and congratulations! You are invited to go visit my reception again anytime, if you feel like it. I will check out for visits and comments there once in a while.

Thanks, Robin! Sorry about it being familiar, but life has its ups and downs, doesn’t it?

Oh, I meant just that – that I am sorry you had to deal with depression, too… but many of us do… and art helps;-)

Thanks so much, Joanne! I do appreciate your reflections on my drawing…
I just somehow am not so comfortable with the word “illness”... but OK, what do labels matter? For doctors it means that it may be solved by medicines or locking the person somewhere, so she won’t harm herself. For others it means that the “mentally ill” person is very different from themselves… are all the depressed people in the world mentally ill? Is it simply chemicals in the brain that should be fixed? There are so many people who are depressed nowadays, that you may think something must be actually ill or wrong in the world we are living in, making it too hard to cope emotionally…

Hope it doesn’t sound like an attack in anyway…. I was just sharing my problem with this label, because labels like this are not too good for self-image or integrating in the world.