Whether it be the societal pressure of achieving milestones by a specific age, or the internalized need to have a ‘happy’ birthday, birthday depressions are more common than most people expect. Pulling together every single diary entry I had written on my birthday, 22nd February, across the span of 12 years, I created a self published comic based on what I remembered of myself at that time to slowly overcome this daunting fear of birthdays.