This chapter analyses Kabi Nagata’s manga memoirMemoir about her struggle with lonelinessLoneliness in Lesbian LonelinessMy lesbian experience with loneliness as a work in the developing subgenre of tōjisha manga manga. It argues that, in crafting the role of tōjisha mangaka mangaka for herself as an intervention in her own mental health struggles, Nagata provides an example of a way to live with her depressionDepression that serves as a contemporary model for meeting the challenges of self-care through writing. Furthermore, it advocates for further investigation into the link between mental health and sexualitySexuality. Using Butler’s (1993: 97) concept of ‘phantasmatic identificationPhantasmatic identification’, it scrutinizes Nagata’s own consideration of sexualitySexuality and genderGender in relation to her mental health struggles and identity as an artist. It reveals how Nagata’s work identifies ‘invisible’ heteronormativeHeteronormative structures as contributing to illness in queer individuals by connecting these ideas to others in Japanese disability studies.