My depression gets out of control sometimes. Sunday night was one of those times. It was brutal. I’m talking some dark-night-of-the-soul type depression. Maybe some of you have felt this way. Profoundly sad. Hopeless. Indifferent to being alive. That’s where I was on Sunday… feeling like I was slipping deeper and deeper into an oblivion of despair. And as I lay in bed, unable to fall asleep, I was faced with two choices: continue to lie there and hope that I could simply cease to exist, or I could crawl out of bed and fight my depression by making fun of it. I chose the latter, and decided to turn what I was feeling into a comic.
It’s not the first time I’ve done it, but this time I did it by repurposing what was supposed to be a sticker for my FEELING MESSED UP crowdfunding campaign. I took my overwhelming depression, a sticker design, and I turned it into a two-page short comic. And now I’m adding it to FEELING MESSED UP, because that was the entire point of creating project in the first place. You can read the entire comic, and the other shorts about depression, donuts, and insomnia in the mini-comic FEELING MESSED UP. The Kickstarter campaign is going on right now. Please take the time to check it out, consider backing it, and spread the word. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfwalker/feeling-messed-up