Brainstorm Blog #1

For my zine, I wanted to do it on the topic of mental health. Given the fact that I, along with many other people I know, suffer with a wide variety of mental health problems. For my images, I wanted to highlight some not so good things that I do to cope with life when I am not doing the best and how I feel during those times. I want to name it, The Book of Bad Habits, and I want to make it the small single page layout since this topic is very personal and intimate to my life. For my front cover I was going to make a full battery with the label social battery, and on the back will be the same social battery but low, this represents how once you fall back into these habits it drains your social battery and health. The first image in my book will be a bunch of piles of homework not done, since when I'm feeling not the best I have no motivation to do anything. This reasoning also correlates with the 4th image in my book of a messy room, since I have no motivation for anything I let my room just keep getting messier and messier with no urgency to clean it. The second image in my book is going to be an upside down Absolut bottle with a drop coming out of it. When I'm not doing the best I do anything to keep my mind off of my problems and that usually resorts in me drinking more alcohol as a way to escape reality. The third image correlates with escaping reality as well because it is going to be a phone screen with a lot of missed notifications. I do not respond to people, sometimes weeks at a time, as a form of escapism from real life. The fifth and sixth image have more to do with how I feel on the inside during these times, but are still bad habits due to poor mental health. The fifth image is going to be a bunch of different faces each representing a different mood or emotion that I feel. They will be different expressions and each a different color that I feel accurately represents each emotion. When I partake in these bad habits and have poor mental health, I let my emotions control me instead of the other way around. The sixth and final image will be of a brain with the word "AHHHHH" coming out of it. This is how I feel internally when I know I'm avoiding my responsibilities and taking part in self destructive habits, but not doing anything about it. It represents how I feel on the inside when my life is coming crashing down on me, but I simply can not get myself to care enough.