Outside our small safe place flies Mystery... A snake beneath the forest floor, a whisper: Melusine

Okay, after thinking about what I wrote, I think I might have come up with some solutions.  Any other suggestions on how to defeat artist's block are welcomed!

Problem: I feel too medicated
Solution:  I need to check my levels again and see if perhaps I am too medicated.  I should also insist that my doctors pay more attention to my needs and feelings. 

Problem: Procrastination due to lack of passion for the story
Solution:  Try to find the parts I like best and concentrate on those or make them central to the designs/images on each page.  I should also try to draw outside of the house and go sit somewhere else to create the images.  Sometimes getting some fresh air might help.  I should also procrasinate on getting other work done in order to finish this book; housework can wait, art lasts forever!

Problem: Not having a best friend(s) to share it with
Solution:  I should try to find a way to join a club or organization for artists of my caliber and interests.  Maybe I can get new comic book best friends?!  Yeah, I need a support group...

Problem: Still experiencing sadness over relationship losses
Solution:  I think the same ties in with above...

Problem:  Inability to use catharsis to create art
Solution:  Maybe I should put off the heavy emotional stuff for later and just do a couple pieces of art that are fun to do, to give myself an escape from troubles.  This could also be a good warm-up for other work I need to get done.

Problem:  Doubts about my abilities as an artist
Solution:  I've always noticed my art sucks when I put myself down.  I need to reconfirm my belief in myself as a human being first before I can let the artist in me out.  Maybe looking through old works I've done well or were rewarded for could help.

Problem:  Cultural pressure
Solution:  As I think more on this, I realize that many things that are thought to be essentially "white man inventions" have been met with skepticism.  Even more, many people in my tribe, like many americans, are not accustomed to considering comic book art as fine art.  They see comic books as cheap kid's stuff, but if the elders took a closer look, they'd realize that the art of making a comic book is very similiar to the way we used traditional pictographs as a means to communicate stories and ideas.  My tribe, the Menominee, never had a written language per say, we used pictures on little wooden boards to express not just ideas, but as a means to heal and help others.  The pictures, like the images in a comic book, go in sequence to describe an event or action taken by a spirit or person in the world.  I've always maintained to elders that comics are the way to go to fully express the beauty of our culture -- I just have to show them how.  The pressure of doing this is incredible.  What if I suck at this?  I think they were thinking the same thing until I showed them the work I've done so far.  I think they were expecting me to treat the spirits in our world as cartoon fantasies like the playthings of the white man's world; I don't think they were expecting me to draw a water spirit in intricate detail or bring to life the little people like I did.  In fact one of the elders was frightened I had drawn the little people too well -- because when you do that you might accidentally invite them to wreck havoc in your life.  That's the other difference with this comic book; what a white person may find as a mythic creature is believed as real to a red person.  We still hold on to our beliefs in the spirit world, so you have to draw such creatures with great care and respect.  Unlike just sitting down to draw a comic book for, say, DC Comics where all the characters really are fiction, drawing a comic book for the Chippewa is more like putting down a sacred creation myth on paper and letting it come to life -- things are even more real when you draw them than they are just hidden within your own imagination.  It's hard to play both worlds (cultures) in the creation of a book.
The thing is to just do it.