I’m The Rehab, You’re The Drugs: musekicker: kurlolzmakara: Ok that post REALLY pisses me off.Don’t…

I’m The Rehab, You’re The Drugs: musekicker: kurlolzmakara: Ok that post REALLY pisses me off.Don’t…

hbreckel:

Zen Pencil Comics: 89. STEPHEN FRY: Ultimate self-help book

Honestly, if I had written that book I would have written the same thing. It really is a matter of just stopping the self hate. It’s not easy, I know. Believe me, I know more than I would like to. I’ve dealt with depression since 5th grade and have been in and out of therapy, on and off various medications and such for years and years. For a good chunk of my childhood and teen years I was depressed and full of self pity. Sometime during college I failed a semester because I was having so many issues with depression.

I woke up and really looked at my life. I saw that all I was doing was laying around feeling sorry for myself. I would look at my life and art and hate it and I would drag all my friends into my little spiral of self loathing. I sort of had a moment where I was just like what the hell am I doing? I’m wasting so much time and so much of my life just sitting around feeling sorry for myself. So I started working towards putting an end to that frame of mind.

It was really hard and I did have to cut a few people and other influences from my life that were making me so negative. And to this day I still have troubles here and there (we’re only human), but for the most part I conquered it. 

When I see people I know that do nothing but lay around and feel sorry for themselves, I try to be supportive but I also try to be realistic. If someone’s depressed you should totally be there for them. But if they’re stuck in a cycle of hating themselves and what they do, do your best to put a stop to it. Obviously you can’t just make someone go “welp, time to feel better about myself”, as ultimately that person has to have the courage to tackle the problem. But don’t be an enabler. Help them get out of the house or be productive because that’s far better than just allowing them to lay around being depressed. Just sitting around them being all “of course you don’t suck, of course you’re great” is more harmful than helpful.

We are what we spend our time with. And if we spend our time thinking about how life sucks, our life is just going to suck. 

katusedcharm replied to your photo: The soot sprites are really looking forward to…

HOW CAN I GET ONE.

UHMM

Well. I’m going to be selling them at the cons for $2 a piece. But if you want me to mail one, you’ll need to get a pair because they can’t travel all that way alone. So $5 should be enough to get a couple sent if you really want one!

Otherwise, come see me at a convention! I’m currently slated to be at Anime Banzai (utah), Anime Vegas (nevada), FurCon (California), and Confuzzled (United Kingdom)! 

(PS if you want one, just note me, email, or tweet at me and we can set it up!)