However the tears of blood suggest guilt and shame. A lonely black house isolated by a fence in dark bare surroundings showing a tree bending in the wind illustrating anxiety associated with the depression. Two bare and broken trees are on either side of the road in an empty lifeless landscape and a broken fence. A man weighed down by a burden on his back is on the edge of a cliff contemplating suicide. The bending tree reflects his anxiety since it is leaning the opposite way to the direction in which he might jump.
Death is represented by funerals, coffins, graves and crosses.
Here death thoughts are accompanied by tears of blood showing guilt or shame and illustrated by a tomb and cross. Two trees, the one dead with sharp broken off branches, the other seems to be dying. In retrospect this was another indication of the suicide which later followed. A depressed man with an obsessional personality, illustrated by the thousands of careful pencil marks on the first drawing, repeated these drawings of rocks. Then one Monday he suddenly produced a frightening head and suicided before he saw his psychiatrist on Friday.