Spiky 

Toxic

Plastic 

Flowing 

DYSFUNCTIONAL

I started of by taking one of the words that I thought would be most difficult to create visually and made a spider diagram of all the words that meant the same or similar and the things that it made me feel or think about.

For the word Dysfunctional I came up with the idea of making the word look
(Unfit for purpose, broken, something missing, not very legible)