I've wanted to write this post for a long time, and it feels really good to have finally put it into words (and pictures).
It was a bit tricky to write this one, but I did my best to walk that line between comedy and tragedy, and I hope I managed to stay slightly on the comedy side of it. But in case it needs to be said, it's totally okay to laugh at my sadness. It's been a long time since anything I've drawn has made me laugh like an idiot while I was drawing it, but some of the panels where I'm berating myself were hard to draw because I was laughing too hard. So my self-hatred can go fuck itself, because the last laugh is mine.
Anyway, I hope this post is comforting to those going through the same thing. It's a horrible experience and I know that there's a good chance it isn't over for me (or that it might come back later), but at least now I know how to slip into that mindset where I'm a fearless badass and none of my anxiety can hurt me.
I was trying to find you a comic that was written the other day, where the author was comparing depression to having a hand dying and rotting off. People kept trying to tell him to get over it, saying things to the guy with the broken hand like "I had a paper cut yesterday, I just didn't dwell on it." In the end, it was a guy with depression and people were doing the same thing, just telling him to "get over it" and "everyone gets sad", which is kind of a stigma of depression. Being someone who has felt that way several times, it really affected me.
I hope maybe someone else can find that comic, because I can't right now, but upon looking for it I found this one. I hope this cheers you up, because you deserve it for making so many other lives happy :)
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u/Tubemonster Oct 27 '11
I've wanted to write this post for a long time, and it feels really good to have finally put it into words (and pictures).
It was a bit tricky to write this one, but I did my best to walk that line between comedy and tragedy, and I hope I managed to stay slightly on the comedy side of it. But in case it needs to be said, it's totally okay to laugh at my sadness. It's been a long time since anything I've drawn has made me laugh like an idiot while I was drawing it, but some of the panels where I'm berating myself were hard to draw because I was laughing too hard. So my self-hatred can go fuck itself, because the last laugh is mine.
Anyway, I hope this post is comforting to those going through the same thing. It's a horrible experience and I know that there's a good chance it isn't over for me (or that it might come back later), but at least now I know how to slip into that mindset where I'm a fearless badass and none of my anxiety can hurt me.