The critic starts out healthily most of the time. Just an example of how it can end up badly. Also a pretty regular struggle I have. And also why I always say I’m sorry.
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My over developed critic is like a broken record. I’m still struggling with him. He questions why I post my comics. He insists I’m trying to pretend to be better than I am. He reminds me of my guilt and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t have much to add to this one. My healthy adult exists. He’s just… too used to being bullied. He operates quietly outside of view, if he does operate. Depressed Dave was born because he knew Dave had to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m borrowing from schema therapy, which is the main therapy model that my therapist and I are using. But it’s been very effective in pulling out some major parts of my brain, and given many insights into the various functions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been an interesting experiment trying to choose Chinese/Mandarin characters that are simple enough to convey what I want to talk about, and then to choose the words to fill the strokes needed to write the character. But perhaps for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The damage that we do to the younger folk we care for can be very damaging indeed. Even if it’s out of the fear that the world will hurt them more than we can. It’s true that the world can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t necessarily have anything nice to say about this coming series of strips. I’m simply “giving up” and drawing out my pain. Ahahah. Drawing out my pain… My apologies if things turn a little dark for a while. I’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This comic was ready a month or more ago, but I couldn’t bring myself to publish it. I struggle with impact. I struggle with the negative voice, the critic in my head, telling me that I’m not enough, this is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not that I can’t take compliments or even due credit for my work. It’s that I prefer to deflect it with humour, point out why I don’t deserve it, refuse to accept that I had anything to do with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of my comics change as I draw them. This was one of them – and I ended up drawing two aspects of anxiety and depression in. Depression can have us think the worst of ourselves, and anxiety has us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…