For my yearly self-portrait, I was incredibly manic and drew myself as a god with a purple diadem that I never finished and never will. I was diagnosed with bipolar shortly after creating the self-portrait, the medication that I was proscribed stamped on and crushed all my creativity, and drawing was immensely hard and I could barely draw a frog. I thought I lost it all, everything I worked so hard to accomplish, was gone. I will never finish this self-portrait because I hope to never be in the same mindset as I was while creating it. I love it though because it shows a side of me a lot of people never see or will ever get to see and it shows the effects that bipolar has on people.