Within the last couple of years, we’ve seen an increasing acceptance and understanding surrounding mental health issues.

Where, previously, people kept these feelings under wraps, as they were considered taboo, today, we see people opening up about their experiences more and more, particularly amongst A-listers, including Cara Delevingne, Rita Ora, Wentworth Miller and Laura Mvula just recently.

With this rise in mental health awareness, (and an apparent rise in the number of sufferers) the understanding that people’s experiences are all varying and different within each bracket term - anxiety, depression, OCD – has also arisen. One way in which people have been expressing the way these conditions affect them is through art.

From everyday stress to depression and anxiety, several illustrators have visually represented the inner workings of their minds – and highlighted what many others are also feeling.

In the latest of these, Montreal-based illustrator Cathering Lepage, has drawn her own experience of anxiety in an honest and often funny series which has been published in a book, Thin Slices of Anxiety, this year.

Powerful yet witty illustrations reveal the inner workings of an anxious mind