Alexa Meade captures the brutality of depression through her series of self-portraits titled “Falling”. Alexa has suffered from depression from the age of 10, and following treatment, was inspired to share her extraordinary narrative of resiliency through artwork. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Alexa explains that she “imagined Falling, a series of fifty self-portrait drawings, drawn hyper-realistically as a means of heightening the savage reality of depression.”

To find out more about Alexa Meade, you can watch her TedTalk here.