Dance For Me
Two Short Experimental Art Films
Monday 30 September 2013
Tuesday 24 September 2013
Depression
21 COMICS THAT CAPTURE THE FRUSTRATIONS OF DEPRESSION
BuzzFeed is wonderful. I came across this today and wanted to share it, as I think it is truly liberating for those suffering from depression to see that they are not alone.
Madison: I am a Millennial. Generation Y. Born between the birth of AIDS and 9/11, give or take. They call us "the Global Generation." We are known for our entitlement and narcissism. Some say it's because we're the first generation where every kid gets a trophy just for showing up. Others think it's because social media allows us to post every time we fart or have a sandwich for all the world to see. But it seems that our one defining trait is a numbness to the world, an indifference to suffering. I know I did anything I could to not feel. Sex, drugs, booze. Just take away the pain. Take away my mother and my asshole father. And the press, and all the boys I loved who wouldn't love me back. Hell, I was gang raped, and two days later I was back in class like nothing happened. I mean, that must have hurt like hell, right? Most people never get over stuff like that, and I was, like, "Let's go for Jamba juice." I would give everything I have or will ever have just to feel pain again. To hurt.
- Madison, American Horror Story
Courtesy of BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeed is wonderful. I came across this today and wanted to share it, as I think it is truly liberating for those suffering from depression to see that they are not alone.
The Dead (#3.7)" (2013)
Madison: I am a Millennial. Generation Y. Born between the birth of AIDS and 9/11, give or take. They call us "the Global Generation." We are known for our entitlement and narcissism. Some say it's because we're the first generation where every kid gets a trophy just for showing up. Others think it's because social media allows us to post every time we fart or have a sandwich for all the world to see. But it seems that our one defining trait is a numbness to the world, an indifference to suffering. I know I did anything I could to not feel. Sex, drugs, booze. Just take away the pain. Take away my mother and my asshole father. And the press, and all the boys I loved who wouldn't love me back. Hell, I was gang raped, and two days later I was back in class like nothing happened. I mean, that must have hurt like hell, right? Most people never get over stuff like that, and I was, like, "Let's go for Jamba juice." I would give everything I have or will ever have just to feel pain again. To hurt.
- Madison, American Horror Story
21 Comics That Capture The Frustrations Of Depression
For those who have suffered, are suffering, or simply want to learn more.posted on
1. The dream of waking up and randomly finding the source of your depression.
Art by Megan Rose Gedris.
2. The frustrating way people talk about mental illness versus other illnesses.
Art by Susie Cambell.
13. Having to deal with people delegitimizing your pain.
Art by Shannon Sophia.
21. And, of course, no list of comics that capture the minutae of depression would be complete without the amazing work of Hyperbole And A Half creator Allie Brosh.
“You’re so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That’s why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But you, it’s not about joy, it’s about the memory of a joyful time that’s gone forever’” (p205).
(Nocturnes - Cellist)
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