Mental health issues have many different expressions. Just because you’re maintaining appearances doesn’t mean you can’t suffer considerably.
But yeah, people are definitely romanticizing certain expressions of mental illness.
Some people fall in love with depressed people or otherwise mentally ill people. Often that’s because they are available, in need, and vulnerable.
A depressed person is usually lonely. If you start a romance with them, they will give you all the attention you want. They will become dependent on you emotionally.
Mentally ill people are prime victim material for narcissists.
How is that pot staying up? One hand on the side, not even holding a handle.
There’s something else going on and I suspect it’s below the bottom of the imagePressed against the body? Which seems kind of hard for a pot containing fresh food, but then, the character is supposed to be depressed and maybe doesn’t care about the burn.
Maybe it’s gazpacho soup.
One hand is in what looks like an oven mitt, implying it’s hot.
Insulation works in both directions!
Those are definitely steam lines
Maybe it’s gazpacho soup as Lister prefers it!
magnetic gloves
Probably a person giving them head while the pot stays on it. Huh, what a freaky artist…
Hey, sometimes you just need to feel something different, y’know?
As someone who lives with a person who had multiple depressive phases that lasted for months I can tell you it is not fun. Not being able to understand your partner is hard, trying to support them knowing that you really can not do anything to make it any better is worse.
As someone with depression this is perhaps the worst way you could possibly treat me, I would genuenly rather someone tell me to go fuck myself with a rusty pipe than this
Would you mind to elaborate that? I am genuinely curious and want to learn. I am not quite sure what you are referring to - being looked at with admiration or being talked about in a derogative way (the teeth comment)? I can’t really wrap my head around and it seems like I am missing something.
Not them but I also suffer from depression.
It is the showing of adoration or, more specifically, people who romanticize our suffering; those who try to reassure us that we are still “beautiful/handsome/desirable” while we are at our lowest, haven’t taken care of our hygiene in weeks, and look like a disheveled mess of our former selves. It comes off as patronizing. Then there are the ones who think we are some cliche emo from TV, as if our suffering is an aesthetic choice rather than a genuine breakdown of our ability to care for ourselves.
Also not the other person, also depressive, my take:
Adoring support of my dysfunction is the opposite of what I need. Yes, it’s fucking uncomfortable when my wife keeps nagging and prodding me to do things until the discomfort provides the willpower to overcome the suffocating listlessness and get my ass in gear, but at least it gets me doing something instead of helplessly drowning in the mountains of “I should, but can’t” piling up around me.
If the only thing that breaks me out that sense of powerlessness is to prove to myself that I do have power to do something, I need someone to coerce me into doing something, not coddle and enable the demon leeching all energy and joy from me.
My wife gets pissed when I don’t do my part, and while I wish she didn’t have to, I’m glad she does.
til British people are all depressed
<Looks at British food> <Looks at British weather>
Yeah, that checks out.
