panel 1: “It’s amazing you’ve come this far. Being so worthless.”
panel 2: “It’s not really giving up, if you’ve never really contributed anything.”
panel 3: “What’s the point?! No one will miss you.”
panel 4: “Nobody.”
Confessional time, Folks. This strip is when it hit me that I had been loosing the battle against my own self-doubt. It was also this strip that gave me the weapon that years of therapy didn’t. By forcing myself to see those nasty little voices in my head as separate from “me”, I was able to train myself to dismiss what they were saying as irrelevant. I am currently winning the battle, and still reading WS.
I’m impressed. Do you know someone who’s had suicidal experiences, because I’ve been suicidal, and these same words would run around my head.
the reversed lopsided font makes for good ‘demonspeak’ here; kudos to you, Paul!
the translation to normal writing:
panel 1: “It’s amazing you’ve come this far. Being so worthless.”
panel 2: “It’s not really giving up, if you’ve never really contributed anything.”
panel 3: “What’s the point?! No one will miss you.”
panel 4: “Nobody.”
I love doubt rolling her eyes there.
So many times I have felt like that. It is so strange to see it illustrated like this. She is so real…
Confessional time, Folks. This strip is when it hit me that I had been loosing the battle against my own self-doubt. It was also this strip that gave me the weapon that years of therapy didn’t. By forcing myself to see those nasty little voices in my head as separate from “me”, I was able to train myself to dismiss what they were saying as irrelevant. I am currently winning the battle, and still reading WS.
Great. That is not easy to do. You are an amazing person and should be proud of your achievement.