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> Honest question - did you give up counting, > or give up finishing the comic at all? Honest answer: I gave up finishing the comic. It became tiring to sto

by ak39 13y ago

> Honest question - did you give up counting, > or give up finishing the comic at all? Honest answer: I gave up finishing the comic. It became tiring to stomach. I truly felt that the piece actually insults and undermines clinical depression. That's of course my opinion.

ygxa 13y ago
Then you probably didn't read to the part where she only came back after seeing psychiatrists (read: not just some smug guy who's into absurdism), being diagnosed with clinical depression, and getting medication. The comic was tiring to stomach - hey mister, what happened to depression being a gift that creates beauty? - because depression is tiring to stomach, because it's not a now-and-again, masturbatory, recreational musing into the meaning of it all you indulge in over some Camus. She has gotten better enough to create this comic, after getting medication and professional help. Again, after two years of not creating anything before she started treatment. I'm not sure why you think you're more qualified to determine if somebody was depressed by half-reading a comic they made after getting medicated than professionals she spoke to at length, while she was depressed, in the process of getting diagnosed, treated, and trying medication. I suspect you're not very self-aware. You may find it useful to ask yourself, "which is more likely: a hilarious, talented artist stopped enjoying things she loves, quit creating, left the internet and isolated herself, went through the painful and difficult process of trying to explain what she was going through to others, went to doctors, got incorrectly diagnosed, and started medication with very serious side-effects because she doesn't get the Myth of Sisyphus, or...someone with no medical training who didn't even RTFA ran his mouth presumptuously about a stranger's mental health and got it wrong." Or indeed, "who better knows what clinical depression is like - somebody who exhibited the symptoms of depression for two years before getting professionally diagnosed and medicated and the doctors who diagnosed her, or some guy who totally thinks about philosophy sometimes and stuff." Things to mull over. Your opinion is embarrassing, and you should feel embarrassed.

by ak39 13y ago

ygxa 13y ago

Then you probably didn't read to the part where she only came back after seeing psychiatrists (read: not just some smug guy who's into absurdism), being diagnosed with clinical depression, and getting medication. The comic was tiring to stomach - hey mister, what happened to depression being a gift that creates beauty? - because depression is tiring to stomach, because it's not a now-and-again, masturbatory, recreational musing into the meaning of it all you indulge in over some Camus. She has gotten better enough to create this comic, after getting medication and professional help. Again, after two years of not creating anything before she started treatment. I'm not sure why you think you're more qualified to determine if somebody was depressed by half-reading a comic they made after getting medicated than professionals she spoke to at length, while she was depressed, in the process of getting diagnosed, treated, and trying medication. I suspect you're not very self-aware. You may find it useful to ask yourself, "which is more likely: a hilarious, talented artist stopped enjoying things she loves, quit creating, left the internet and isolated herself, went through the painful and difficult process of trying to explain what she was going through to others, went to doctors, got incorrectly diagnosed, and started medication with very serious side-effects because she doesn't get the Myth of Sisyphus, or...someone with no medical training who didn't even RTFA ran his mouth presumptuously about a stranger's mental health and got it wrong." Or indeed, "who better knows what clinical depression is like - somebody who exhibited the symptoms of depression for two years before getting professionally diagnosed and medicated and the doctors who diagnosed her, or some guy who totally thinks about philosophy sometimes and stuff." Things to mull over. Your opinion is embarrassing, and you should feel embarrassed.