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So one of the things I do when I find myself dealing with depression and particularly harmful thoughts is I'll either write about it, or write about why I'm not going to give into it. After some prodding by a close friend, I gave into peer pressure and turned my most recent monologue into a short comic.

...It's not really short. It's over thirty panels.

Anyway, here it is. Maybe it'll help someone. There's lots of reasons to not give into depression, this is just my one of many self-learned firewalls against it. It works in conjunction with other things, and it's certainly not one of the most positive reasons (it's kind of neutral at best), but it has been effective for me in the way that I deal with my inner demons.

I don't know that it came out the way I wanted it to. Honestly I have a lot of problems with the visuals, but one of the things I'm always telling my friends is that it doesn't matter if it's perfect, the point is to finish it and move on. So mostly this is me trying to not be a hypocrite. I'm also a huge perfectionist so... not taking this slow and doing every step "right" was really hard. But I'm also trying to make myself not care so much, as my caring often gets in the way of finishing things. Also by the time I finished doing the refined sketches, I knew if I didn't finish all in one sitting, I was not going to finish it, simply because a lot of the visual aspects bothered me that putting it down was going to mean I wouldn't pick it up again. So... suffice to say, this is not my favorite art piece ever, but I did finish it and that's something to be proud of.

I'm really rusty with comic paneling and composition, but hopefully it doesn't look too terrible. In any case, I hope you enjoy it.

My favorite part of this is literally the fact that all the characters are wearing onesies.

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So one of the things I do when I find myself dealing with depression and particularly harmful thoughts is I'll either write about it, or write about why I'm not going to give into it. After some prodding by a close friend, I gave into peer pressure and turned my most recent monologue into a short comic.

...It's not really short. It's over thirty panels.

Anyway, here it is. Maybe it'll help someone. There's lots of reasons to not give into depression, this is just my one of many self-learned firewalls against it. It works in conjunction with other things, and it's certainly not one of the most positive reasons (it's kind of neutral at best), but it has been effective for me in the way that I deal with my inner demons.

I don't know that it came out the way I wanted it to. Honestly I have a lot of problems with the visuals, but one of the things I'm always telling my friends is that it doesn't matter if it's perfect, the point is to finish it and move on. So mostly this is me trying to not be a hypocrite. I'm also a huge perfectionist so... not taking this slow and doing every step "right" was really hard. But I'm also trying to make myself not care so much, as my caring often gets in the way of finishing things. Also by the time I finished doing the refined sketches, I knew if I didn't finish all in one sitting, I was not going to finish it, simply because a lot of the visual aspects bothered me that putting it down was going to mean I wouldn't pick it up again. So... suffice to say, this is not my favorite art piece ever, but I did finish it and that's something to be proud of.

I'm really rusty with comic paneling and composition, but hopefully it doesn't look too terrible. In any case, I hope you enjoy it.

My favorite part of this is literally the fact that all the characters are wearing onesies.