Seeing it as an old man was not what I expected but it makes sense because a childhood bully is only pushing their own insecurities onto you. He also wants me to think he is older and wiser than me and knows what is best
The slumped posture and hood up to hide his face really conveys the portrayal of the future self (emotions) that I will have — further raising the stakes and near certainty I will feel like the depicted inner critic when I inevitably don’t perform. Then the cycle repeats. I learned that I truly am my own worst enemy — not any one past experience or part of my past.
It being a hooded figure in the mould of “death”, where one of my longest childhood fears was mortality makes sense. However having conquered that fear, it gives me hope of being able to conquer this critic
I recognised it
I felt more able to recognise it. He became real
It made me sad to see it
It took away from the vagueness of this feeling and it was helpful to actually see
It was like looking at the saddest parts of myself
That even though it looks scary and mean it is here to help me.
The visual representation is very close to what I was thinking it would look like, and seeing it makes me feel like I am now able to fight it away and over power it
No
Not really
That’s its not all me, i can control and be better than it
The image of all the bugs crawling on a person felt very real. It gives a nice representation that these can eventually be taken off, but also that it’s a collection of a lot of small things that can be addressed.
It was a decent representation. Ominous, quiet, sneaky, hiding in the background but evil and lurking. Malevolent.
It was representative. Dark, ominous, creepy, malevolent. Lurking in the background. Hiding in shadows.
Dark and lurking
Yes, like a darkness
Good realization that it’s only a part of me and not all of me
Not quite what I imagined, mine is more venomous and its words sting like a jab in the ribs