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Bambach received input from his peers about their anxieties by posting instructions for them to 'draw your demon'. Photos: TNS

The symptoms usually start when Matthew Bambach is going through a major life change – his body tenses up, his head feels hot and his mind begins racing.

“The world feels like it is spinning and eventually you just feel numb and lay down and curl up in a ball,” says the graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, who has been seeing therapists for anxiety since 2012 and experienced its symptoms most of his life.