Advice Collage
2014-present
An ongoing project in which mostly anonymous questions are submitted to advicecollage.tumblr.com and I answer in the form of a single image. Outside the text included in the collage itself - and, in rare cases, links to crisis resources - I provide no other context or guidance.
full archive here
"I’m in love with my eating disorder"
"How can I live with myself knowing that I’m not what my parents thought I was going to be?"
"which version of me am i, really?"
"Where do I put all the names I have learned?"
"i miss her. i have a boyfriend now, but god do i miss her. sometimes i have trouble convincing myself that she’s not The One. we never even dated. how can i meaningfully move on?"
"how do i know who i am?"
"I have no ambition. What do I do?"
"how do you know there is a problem when they say there isn't a problem?"
"Will it always be so hard to stop myself?"
"I'm scared I'll never be the person I want to be. How do I deal with that?"
"How do I stop being so lonely?"
"How do I tell the difference between an intrusive thought and a sexual fantasy?"
"I never learned how to grieve and now that I need to I feel so lost...what do I do?"
"how can I listen to blink 182 without crying about my brother?"
"how do i stop feeling worthless for being scared of sex"
"why are you pretending to be pregnant with louis tomlinsons baby"
"I'm a bad person and I'm trying to rebuild? Help me?"
"I'm not *great* at any one thing, but I'm okay at several things. A) Should I choose one and stick with it, or try to keep doing all of those things? B) Is it stupid that I'm hung up on not being "talented" or having something I do that defines me?"
"Should I quit my job?"
"is it possible to create art about a man without him willfully misinterpreting it?"
"how can you accept that you won’t be in contact with someone you care for ever again?"
"how do i stop missing people too badly to ever meet new ones"
"I’m scared I’m too troubled to ever be touched."
"should i?"
"should i stay friends with the boy who broke my heart?"
"What if I never get to have a baby?"
"thoughts for someone who feels frustrated and disassociated from they way their own body and identity feels, but isn’t in the social position to work on it?"