That perseverance really left a touch on my heart. In my opinion, only a story that comes from a place that is important for you, that has effect on you, will bring the best out of you. First of all, I wish you well, mentally, physically and comic-wise. I believe that through your work, you will achieve peace. Just don't give up on the struggle. Please. Thank you for posting your story here 
How did you hurt it? To torn it is pretty bad 
I imagine doing sport, maybe calisthenics/weight lifting?
I do quite a bit of lifting in my carer job so it's starting to take its toll methinks.
Can still draw at least but have to take more breaks.
Tempted to train myself to draw with my left arm 
yeah thats rly the best approach, but you will find yourself wanting reaction if you post it. Like comments or likes, people that do like it boost your motivation beyond anything lol its just rly a good feeling if you get confirmation =D but yeah definitely don't strife for that and be careful to not fall into that pit, cause it can happen.
Thank you so much. 
Indeed, I find much peace and hapiness through my comic, even though it's not perfect, I'm doing it even with my difficulties, even when I feel like it's not worth it, I keep trying to improve and make something at least readable xD and my story means a lot to me, I think that's because of what you said, that's because it comes from a place of importance. I may have made a good decision of making it about mental health, making it about personal things, I think that's why I didn't give up in the years I've been making it.
Well hahah thanks again, I don't plan on giving up so soon, I'm on a good place right now, at least for today I am. Hopefully I'll be for a good while. And hopefully my comic will be too xD
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Cheers.
My story as Crow's Worth started out as a Naruto parody comic that I started writing back in 2005-2006. But over time I sort of distanced myself from Naruto and tried to develop my own story. Growing up, I dealt with bad anxiety as well as childhood depression and a difficult relationship with food, which sort of got reflected into the story.
Around 2010-ish, I was planning on turning it into a webcomic but sort of felt like I wasn't "good enough" to pull it off. So I sort of shelved it.
In 2013/14, I was really depressed and felt lost. I ended up cracking open an old notebook with the comic and it ended up cheering me up. I then was determined to actually go through with making it a series. Tho I also realized I needed to rewrite a lot of it and overhaul the lore. There were things in the original comic that were so stupid they just had to go.
I have been working on the series on and off since 2014. Similar to before, I do add some personal things in, like my struggle with my health. I also feel like I improved a lot since I started. I do plan to eventually wrap up the series soon.
I'm gonna leave out a lot cause it involves a lot of other people's personal details and that's not cool
but my current story isn't my first story so I'm not sure if I should start there
or if I should start with my older stories. they were made around the same time-ish anyway
I had to drop out of high school in 2010 because I was having seizures from stress. one of my teachers was stalking me and I lost a lot of friends to this. Art was all I really had at this point. in my mind art was the only thing that wouldn't leave me, so I had to draw every day.
I was going through depression and suicidal ideation but I wasn't aware of it so I buried it deep inside.
I created my first webcomic which did decently on DA but I had no idea about writing so it went on permanent hiatus while I practiced writing. which is where my current story came from. My current story scared me when I first wrote it, the fact that it could come out of my imagination, made me anxious to write so I put it on hold "till I was an adult" I don't think I knew back then that I was just venting.
in 2012 I ended up moving and losing contact with what few friends I had left. (and I hadn't realized my old friends were horrible people) I'd see them a few times a year if anything at this point I mostly just talked to people online. Shorty after my 18th birthday I got asked out by ""someone"" who was a functioning alcoholic and I said yes cause everyone told me to.
I spent a lot of time holed up in my room just trying to pass the time watching TV
2013 is when I met my current boyfriend (LDR) who encouraged me to keep working on my stories, cause until that point I had just been sketching concepts but not really working on them anymore.
My turtle passed away, she was always very sickly but I had her since I was 9 so she was supposed to live longer than I was
And I'm gonna be honest I don't remember much of this year
2014
my dog passed away, and just a few months later my mom decided the best way to cope would be to get a new one, also to get birds and snakes that she's not going to take care of but that I have to take care of. My suicidal ideations became LOUDER, I would occasionally go for walks outside in the middle of the night just to see if my family noticed or cared and they didn't, I'd be gone for hours by the ocean, every time just wondering why I didn't have the guts to drown myself.
that was also the year of the last convention I went to. I got harassed by a drunk homeless man grabbing my hair and telling me I look pretty (in front of a lot of people) and everyone forgot it was my birthday despite knowing me for like a decade. then they act like it's my fault??? That's when I decided to stop talking to them to this day the only person I talk to now is my sister, and even that's hard.
2015
this year nearly every day was just a constant mental breakdown, i'd be crying all the time I eventually had one so big that happened to be on easter that my mom signed me up for a therapist but I was on a waitlist for a year. 
My dad started sending his stalker letters in the mail again and he found me and my sisters social media so we had to delete them
2016
I overdosed on benzodiazepines- not on purpose but for those that don't know if you take them a lot your body gets used to them and they don't work so you want more. and I had been taking them since I was 11 without a prescription.
We moved again, we were supposed to buy a really big house for the whole family but my uncle stole all the money from my grandfather's will so we ended up getting an apartment that was in a shit neighborhood with black mold and leaky pipes
2017
Finally got a therapist, after a few months there I told her about the suicidal ideations and I opted to go to the hospital, by choice.
I moved in with my grandmother a day afterward while the day I came back from the hospital my mom was packing to move to Florida and she ended up selling our dog to her friend.
living with her was only slightly easier cause I knew I wasn't gonna be homeless and I wasn't gonna starve where mom would steal my money and forget to feed me.
I saved up some money so I could go to California and visit my boyfriend and that would be the thing from 2017- 2019 when I would go there and come back and eventually around new years 2020 after he moved to AZ I moved in with his family and we found a place together. And while I'm still in therapy and the suicidal thoughts come back every now and then I'm doing loads better. And honestly writing all this down I'm kinda proud I got this far.
when you only see yourself in the present, it's hard to see just how much progress you've made.
I can barely draw stick figures with my left hand, better take the time for it to heal even if it's a decade
That's incredible my friend! It reminds me of the time I opened my first comic and look at it before I turned it into a novel and although it looked very childish, the story was funny and it cracked me! Thanks for reminding me that. I'll check what you've posted so far, good luck with whatever you will do
I checked your first pages and it is soooo funny hahaha and when you said naruto parody I understood now that he resemble Kakashi appearance. Well done!!!
Definitely! Only when you see yourself in the present you see how much progress you've made. Such a good sentence. I'm glad to hear you are doing better, and I wish you to only raise up. You had a difficult life story, sounds like most of it wasn't your fault but you got out of it. Be proud. Thanks for sharing!
well i started the story maybe 15 years ago as just something cool inspired at the time from world events and characters i made up as conglomerations of parts from more well know charcters, at the time gundam wing was on so there was that to,alot has happened in the last 7 years tough as my grandpa passed and lilttle mroe then 2 years ago my mom passed away as well as two pet dogs that same year , those are just the 2 bggets moments there wre some good and bad intersperced in that 7 year run but not worth anythign really
Wow, 15 years is a long time. Good job for sticking that long and hope better times come and you are happy
What I had to go through is probably less deep than everyone else.
But when I was very young and starting comics, I used to be afraid of drawing extreme body poses, angles, and backgrounds. I happen to be very unmotivated if I have to draw them.
I know they're essential in making comics, so I have to suck it up and do it, although I have never liked the result. I asked my sisters to help me sometimes, but they also had things to do, so I couldn't ask them to help me all the time.
I slowly learn about the alternatives to doing the things I hate, and I find out I don't have to come up with poses and angles with my brain. I learned about references and apps to help me create those. Now i'm still struggling a bit, but to produce good content, I got to keep going and improve myself! 
As a starting comic artist those was my struggles as well! I would be amazed by some backgrounds I've seen like, it would take me literally a month to draw that. And that's one panel! Until I discovered they used photo editing and that's why it's so detailed haha there are many shortcuts to make the process shorter but it's still takes a lot of time to bring out the best quality as a one man production so I'll have to wait for a bigger team, I haven't gave up on that dream yet Good luck with your work!
I can relate to this a lot.
The question is if we really should push us to do things that we hate or that are boring for us instead of
putting all the energy into things we love and enjoy while doing.
Imagine you would only draw the things that you love drawing and do all the rest in a very minimal way.
I´m also not good at that, I always try to push myself through the hard stuff so I can finally draw something
that´s fun, but then I´m exhausted and maybe don´t want to draw the fun stuff anymore.
When I´m really desparate and exhausted I look at Charles Schultz cartoons and think life could be so
easy for me. I´ll upload 2 examples. One is the normal Charles Schultz background and the second
one is the one where he put more background. We are both able to do this 
