[ SECRET POST #2335 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2335 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 095 secrets from Secret Submission Post #334.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[dreemyweird]

No, the strangest part of this secret is that the OP did not understand what the panels in question were telling about.

They were not saying that she could not find a substitute for her toys. They were simply about the way she grew out of them. It was used to introduce the depression metaphor.

This is not even about the OP being unimaginative. This is about the OP being, um, illiterate? Not attentive enough? IDK.

I missed the point, too, by the way: by the end of the comic I was shivering, because everything in me wanted to scream: "oh, I don't want this to happen to me! Please don't let it happen to me! ESPECIALLY THIS LAST BIT ABOUT LAUGHING LIKE A MADMAN", which is... sort of the opposite of what the author meant. But reasonably I know that the message is different.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't wish depression on anyone myself. It's a very painful experience to go through, and you have no idea how and when you can get out of the whole thing. :( *is still trying to recover from it*

[dreemyweird]

I'm sorry it happened to you, OP! My father suffered from clinical depression, but he looked fairly well from the outside, probably because he was constantly on meds. When I grew up anyway. So I couldn't really imagine this experience, and the fact that I often cannot identify with other people for the life of me did not help at all.

Plus I am terribly afraid of people losing self-control and the loss of self-control in general.

And BAM I stumble across this comic. And the worst part of it turns out to be the (relatively) happy ending. Perhaps I am a bad person for finding it terrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

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I'm not OP. But thanks~ :)

You're not a bad person for being afraid, and I understand the fear of losing self-control. Depression is a little different from losing control, though. It's more like you lost part of yourself that saw the world through positive eyes, and in its stead it's despair that exists.

[kryss_labryn]

True. I always thought that "clinical depression" was a really poor misnomer. "Clinical despair" is a lot closer to how it really feels.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 to this. I still have bad days. :(