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    Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons
    Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons
    Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons
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    Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons

    By Chuck Mullin

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    When Chuck Mullin began experiencing anxiety and depression as a teenager, she started drawing comics to help her make sense of the rollercoaster. Eventually, she found that pigeons—lovably quirky, yet universally reviled creatures—were the ideal subjects of a comic about mental illness. Organized in three sections—"Bad Times," "Relationships," and "Positivity"—and featuring several short essays about the author’s experiences, Bird Brain is a highly relatable, chuckle-inducing, and ultimately uplifting collection of comics for anyone who has struggled to maintain their mental health.
     

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN9781524859619
    Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons

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    Bird Brain - Chuck Mullin

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    Bird Brain copyright © 2019 by Chuck Mullin. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever withoutwritten permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

    Andrews McMeel Publishing

    a division of Andrews McMeel Universal

    1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106

    www.andrewsmcmeel.com

    Bird Brain was originally published in Great Britain by Unbound.

    ISBN: 978-1-5248-5961-9

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2019940389

    Editor: Melissa R. Zahorsky

    Art Director/Designer: Tiffany Meairs

    Production Editor: Amy Strassner

    Production Manager: Tamara Haus

    Ebook Developer: Kristen Minter

    ATTENTION: SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES

    Andrews McMeel books are available at quantity discounts with bulk purchase for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail the Andrews McMeel Publishing Special Sales Department: specialsales@amuniversal.com.

    To Mum, Dad, and Ezra—

    for believing in me from day one.

    To Cort—

    my top tier biscuit.

    To Rhi—

    because I said I would. Thanks for breakfast!

    To you—

    for opening this book.

    Contents

    Introduction

    Bad Times

    Relationships

    Positivity

    Conclusion

    Acknowledgments

    A Note on the Author

    INTRODUCTION

    Anxiety is a wild ride. Often, there seems to be an assumption that if you’re mentally ill, you just sit around and cry all the time. There is a certain amount of that, true, but that’s not all there is to it. Sometimes, I walk around and cry!

    There is also a slew of complex emotions and experiences that accompany anxiety—nerves, fear, tentative happiness, the arduous business of forming human connections, the never-ending struggle to convince yourself that you deserve to be content, and so on—usually all experienced concurrently to form an unmanageable cocktail of emotional despair.

    I first started experiencing anxiety when I was around seventeen, as the prospect of jetting off to university (where I knew no one except my then-boyfriend), and fending for myself, began to loom over me like a giant blimp full of killer bees. (Side note: Don’t ever, ever, ever, ever, ever go to university solely to follow a romantic partner. It rarely works out well.) Initially, I thought I was undergoing a completely understandable case of nerves. Nerves that just permeated my entire being 24/7 and suddenly made me hate myself for every awkwardly strung together sentence that left my stupid, gross mouth.

    The fact that something wasn’t right began to hit home one evening when I went with my flatmates to the university’s first freshers’ night. As soon as I entered the campus club, it was like being submerged in water. I couldn’t breathe. There were too many stimuli: too many bright lights, too much noise, and too many people. Way too many people, who I

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