Comics and Crazy People

[will_o_whisper]

It's not sort of thing you expect to find at the end of a link trail that started with a woman's erotic comic, this guy here has a number of comics about his experiences working in a psychiatric ward, but also about the people committed there. He has several that hit personal notes for me. This one on self harm, in a lot of way; the one line, "My

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[strange_tomato]

Those are really nice comics. I wish more people would be exposed to them, to get this message. It reminds me of that discussion we had about it in simsecret, and how people make that accusation of self harmers as being "attention whores," which is clearly not the case.

I also agree with you about mental illness and the stigma attached to it. It seems as if people can only see it as a personal weakness, when they're much more understanding of a physical disability.

(Also, don't feel lonely, okay? <3)

[will_o_whisper]

What I really like about them is that, one, they put these issues into an accessible format, and two, he talks about them a sort of sensitivity I'm not used to. Through middle and high school I read most of the books in the library about depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders; most of them were very detached and clinical, even in cases where it seemed the writers really cared about there patients. Of course, then there were books like one I remember where the author was upset that society was moving away from ECT as a first line of defense in the treatment of bipolar and depression. Which, yeah.

The fact he's cares enough to draw these out kinda makes it feel like he really care about his topic, and that a nice change I guess.

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say people are necessarily more understanding of physical disabilities...just for example, some of the blatantly ignorant comments reported in most Con. write-ups posted on metafandom lead me to feel otherwise. But yeah, I do agree that mental illnesses are seen as