Commentary from Published August 21, 2016
I’ve kind of fallen behind in these, hopefully I can start to catch up.
Man, do I wish I never had to understand this one. One of the effects of depression is that you either sleep way too much or sleep too little, and I have been “blessed” with the latter so that’s why the strips tend to show that side more. There’s a panicky feeling around 4 am to 5 am where you know you need to fall asleep to function and your body isn’t letting you. It’s tired, but not tired enough. It’s an awful feeling that makes you dread the day even more.
How many depression comix strips feature someone in bed? I think that’s something that’s starting the bother me about drawing depcom, is the sameness … people in bed trying to sleep, people on computers, couples discussing things in parks … it’s an interesting strip to write, but not an interesting strip to draw for the most part. Probably because drawing depression doesn’t allow for action scenes. Drawing depression isn’t that exciting, which is probably why recently I’ve been drawing up Sexy Losers strips, because there was at least more variation in what was going on.
I felt there was more to say with this, and this is why it continues in #302. It’s difficult to show in just four panels how cyclical this is and how the tiredness just compounds itself day after day.
Man, do I wish I never had to understand this one. One of the effects of depression is that you either sleep way too much or sleep too little, and I have been “blessed” with the latter so that’s why the strips tend to show that side more. There’s a panicky feeling around 4 am to 5 am where you know you need to fall asleep to function and your body isn’t letting you. It’s tired, but not tired enough. It’s an awful feeling that makes you dread the day even more.
How many depression comix strips feature someone in bed? I think that’s something that’s starting the bother me about drawing depcom, is the sameness … people in bed trying to sleep, people on computers, couples discussing things in parks … it’s an interesting strip to write, but not an interesting strip to draw for the most part. Probably because drawing depression doesn’t allow for action scenes. Drawing depression isn’t that exciting, which is probably why recently I’ve been drawing up Sexy Losers strips, because there was at least more variation in what was going on.
I felt there was more to say with this, and this is why it continues in #302. It’s difficult to show in just four panels how cyclical this is and how the tiredness just compounds itself day after day.
Happened to me so many times it’s not even funny. :/
This has been me on many occasions.
This has been me for the last two weeks. 🙁
The worst is not being able to fall asleep all night only to finally nod off ten minutes before the alarm goes off.
Yes! That’s the ass kicker. The injury of no sleep combined with the insult of the alarm.
This has been me for months! What an exciting new depression development it’s been, too. Absolutely not another incitement to suicide, oh no not at all.
Been there, done this, got fired.
I remeber all too well what ithas been like *shrugs*
Sleep is so necessary and so fragile – I think people would be more understanding if we told them depression was a sleep disorder (mysterious but generally regarded as physical), rather than a mental illness (cognitive and physical but generally regarded as a mysterious moral failing). The insomnia is one of the worst, most draining and disabling symptoms, a long-term health threat in and of itself.
Someone I’m acquainted with committed suicide recently, incorporating the well-thought out suicide plan of “falling asleep at the wheel” to try and make sure his family got his life insurance. He almost succeeded since his medical records only showed insomnia treatment, but his blog posts came to light.