depression comix #186
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[…] or remembering things as well as I could, it’s hell frustrating. Then there are those people. These are the same people that go “I think he’s just lazy, he got the time to play […]
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This, and a couple of other difficulties also present? Story of my academic life – or at least, what there’s actually been of that.
Really? All this while I just thought I was stupid 🙁 I even let ny lecturer tell me how stupid I am….
I got that a lot.
This a thousand times. I actually read an article on how people with depression are worse at distinguishing things that are very similar to one another (but different), which sucks when it’s time to do tests that include a lot of technicalities and detail, it’s very interesting actually (if it weren’t for the part that thousands of people are affected by it). http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/267039.php
Mas Marlena – I am not liking that the lecturer told you were stupid. I am identifying with you in that regard.
Can’t read for long periods myself. Not sure if I’ll ever be able to do a Masters programme because of the lack of focus
I used to love to read so much, I can’t seem to focus on it at all anymore, and when I DO finally read it ends up being old books I’ve read a dozen times before.
This is not a spiral but a centrifugal force that spins you out of the academic sphere.
(And this comic just touches one aspect; there’s also self-doubt and academic version of social anxiety, making you “unfit” for a massive production of papers, and so on, and so on…)
This is the kind of strip I always wanted to do more in which it teaches about depression symptoms rather than just watching the characters suffer. For those who are interested, you can read more about the cognitive symptoms of depression here:
Tartakovsky, M. (2013). The Cognitive Symptoms of Depression. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 23, 2014, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-cognitive-symptoms-of-depression/00016214
There are obviously more symptoms than I could put into the strip, I would have loved to put in an extra panel on negative thinking, which is particularly destructive for one’s confidence and motivation to do well.
John. W yeah, I was at s pretty bad state after I was talked down by my lecturer :/ ironically I’m studying psychology and he’s a psychology lecturer.
Fuck, I have this problem on Uni, mainly with writing text and essay :/ Maybe I will fail because of it and family only asks: “why you don’t write it?Force yourself.” I can’t force myself [I tried: 2-3 bad sentences in a day]. And still I have feeling, that I’m using depression as pretext to not writing…but I write nothing now and it feels bad, because I loved writing in past 🙁 …
I’ve got 18 months till I take my gcse’s. I’m scared I might have depression. I loved learning, and was a top pupil. This is the only thing pushing me towards getting help.but im not sure I just don’t want to disappoint my parents more.
It’s really late for this to be relevant to you, but maybe it’ll help someone in the future. I cannot focus for sh*t on reading my textbooks or writing papers. Too much distraction. In a sense, I do have to force myself. But instead of powering through it, I do things in chunks. Like, okay, I’ll read/write a paragraph (or whatever the highest amount I can read before my mind wanders, varies by day) then do something else for a couple minutes. Then I’ll do another paragraph and so on. If I alternate like that, it gets done eventually. It’s not incredibly efficient, but it’s more efficient than getting nothing done at all.
I just want to say thank you for making this site. I’m having a really hard time right now and this is the only thing making me feel better.
Just wanted to say the following for this particular Depression comic: THIS!! Though I have not had problems completing a test but just finding motivation to do most things which people take for granted. It sucks, but what more can you do?
These comics make me feel less alone, and this one especially helped me remember that this IS an illness, not just a state of mind one can will their way out of. I had a professor who seemed very indifferent to my mood problems, and it was really frustrating for me.
This is what I struggle with every single day. It helps to know that it’s not just me who has this problem.
@PixelGoth Sounds like one of the effects of depression to me. I get it a fair bit. http://t.co/RMe7NwY0FT goes into it a little.
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this is why I couldn’t get past year 9 in school…… (I’m in Europe, different school system than in America)
I still wonder how teachers are standing in front of their classes and normally speaking to everyone and if someone fails a test they say that it’s the student’s own fault that they failed (atleast in my school) and how they just automatically assume that none of their students has any mental issues or illnesses…