The Trapped Feeling of Assault

I doodled this in my teens in a state of panic and I wanted to share it because working on strategies to manage my panic has been a difficult work in progress ever since.

In my late teens I was assaulted on the tube and ever since I have battled with the automatic trapped-prey panic when any man stares at me too long on the London Underground. I’m pretty sure I’d like to make some art specific to that at some point but it’s still a little too raw to do so. So here is some art from a time when panic ruled me much more strongly.