For 21 days, I logged the details of my anxiety on my phone. I kept track of triggering incidents as well thoughts that were going through my head at the time.
After I collected the data, I plotted them using MS Powerpoint to see the trends.
This is the graph I plotted. The x-axis is time in a day while the y-axis was the days. The length of the lines on the graph represent how long I had felt anxious for that day. Here, I have marked up each anxious thought I had and grouped them into categories.
Through the process of organizing the data, I identified 5 thought patterns I had.
1) What if I fail?
2) What if I'm not liked?
3) What if I die from this?
4) What if things never get better?
5) Unidentified.
Through trial-and-error, I tested out various combinations of colours that would be accessible to people with colour-deficiencies. The image on the right was testing the image on the left with Photoshop through the "Proof Colors" function.
This was one of the most personal and most difficult projects I have done to date. Click here to learn more in-depth about my process on developing this project. Thanks for reading!
