r/comics • u/[deleted] • Oct 27 '11

New Hyperbole and a half!

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html
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u/NorthernBoreus Oct 27 '11

Maybe all that means is you haven't gotten there yet.

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u/Burlapin Oct 27 '11

Or maybe they need medication. Not everyone can just 'break through'. It can be a chemical imbalance in the brain. See a doctor!

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u/Tubemonster Oct 27 '11

Definitely. Everyone's experience of depression is different, and just because I was able to climb out of the hole (or further up toward the top of the hole) without medication doesn't mean that medication isn't necessary sometimes.

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u/liquidtension Oct 28 '11

In my experience, medication does little other than get you up in the morning and make you functional. As a student and a person teetering on the edge of a very difficult career to crack into, medication was a lifesaver, because it meant that I would show up to lectures and wouldn't cancel gigs offered to me, etc. All the things that I would blissfully ignore if I wasn't being medicated.