Hello. My name is Eli, and I have suffered from anxiety and depression most of my life.  
What has helped me a lot is to CREATE. Through the years, I have been through difficult situations and I became aware of the fact that creation, and trying to put myself out there has strenghtened my ability to cope with my different traumas. I feel more myself when creating artistic content and have been doing so for many years now.  
Anxiety still has a hold on me, although it is way more managable through filmmaking, writing, editing and acting. These abilties in the cinema or literature can actually help me and maybe, hopefully, others, should I become more visible.

I hope that others struggling, like I still do, can also find a sort of relief and help through any kind of creation.

If you would like examples of my work (which is a therapy of its own), these two are, I think, the most accurate ones :

Here is a link to the video clip 'Sign Me Out' by Lulu Rouge that I made in the span of two hours. First, to feel better and second to showcase in a video my emotions at the time. My acting is a lot related to the difficulties I summon so that I can perform.

[https://youtu.be/ohbkophJpjw](https://youtu.be/ohbkophJpjw)

And to finish this post with something very personal, this is an article I have written for a website "Healing from BPD", relating to how being myself allows me to be creative and the other way around.  
The post is entitled "The Perks of Being a Borderline Resilient" on this page : [http://elijuniper.com/essay/](http://elijuniper.com/essay/)

I would love to hear from anyone else who can relate. Please, feel free to contact me if so.  
Pleasant day.  
Eli.