Webcomics can nurse , educate , and enlighten , but can they also save a life ?
After looking atthis list of webcomicsthat offered a flavour at some real experiences with genial unwellness , one commenter told us the story of the time when a comic did exactly that . Thecomic in questioncame from Allie Brosh’sHyperbole and a Half(also published in thesuperb bookof the same deed of conveyance ) .
https://gizmodo.com/10-comics-that-can-help-you-understand-mental-illness-1576917503
From commenterPaulie76 :
There are times when I feel as though Hyperbole and a Half literally save my aliveness .
My depression never quite accomplish the depths that she describe . But I came faithful . For many year I live in denial because when I got divorced , the last words my X - wife spoke to me was to say me that I was depressed and I need help .
I would be anathemize if my ex-husband - married woman would ever be right about anything , and so I categorically reject her assertion . No matter how many things went incorrect in my life that I could right away assign to my lack of motive , my apathy and my utter contempt for myself and for being a part of the world around me , I refused to see it for what it was . Because that would have in mind admitting that my ex was correct all along .
About halfway through reading her second blog post . Somewhere around the picture of the dog , and realizing that she woke up one morning wishing that no one loved her so that she did n’t have to finger obligated to go on living … I burst into teardrop . The darned burst , I guess . And from that instant forrader , I allow to myself that I had a problem .
I gratefully do n’t need medicament . I talked to a healer for a while , and I modify some scene of my life ; created rules for survive that help to make the oftenness and continuance of episodes both poor and less life-threatening . But if it had n’t been for that web log post . That line . That drawing of a dog looking over his shoulder at me with a look of flat love on it ’s case , I honestly do n’t be intimate how far down that rabbit hole I would have gone , or if I would have eventually reached the point where I simply could n’t climb back out .
Thanks for sharing , Paulie76 !
picture : Allie Brosh , Hyperbole and a one-half
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