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My brother was diagnosed with depression years before I was, and because of that he started therapy years before I did.

I still remember when I was a young teen and he was playing a Nirvana song and he stopped it at this one line: “I miss the comfort of being sad”

He told me that when you start to get better, there’s a part of you that misses being sad and that if you start feeling that way you have to be extra extra aware and careful because if you indulge the feeling you’ll go down a self-destructive spiral

And even though that was years and years ago, I think about it all the time. Especially when I’m reading discourse on the idea of getting so attached to mental illness as an identity that you don’t want to improve things because you feel safe in it and don’t know who you are without it

I always think of that line “I miss the comfort of being sad” and my brother’s warning

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mr. owner of my heart

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“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

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Marvão - Portugal (by Markus L) 

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Hi Folks,

Over the past few months, I have had many of you bring to my attention a lot of instances of Alibaba and Aliexpress pirating my artwork and selling it without my knowlegde or approval. I have tried to alert Aliexpress and Alibaba of this situation. Unfortunately, their complaint process requires me to sign up for an account with them, send them copies of my passport, and then register every single comic I’ve ever done with proof of copyright (which doesn’t exist in the US) as well as granting them “power of attorney” to represent me legally and pursue the pirates. I cannot provide this pirate company with my information or legal powers, so I will not be dealing with them. I also assume that, if someone is buying something off Aliexpress or Alibaba, they know they are buying pirate goods and don’t care that they are stealing from artists. Spread the word.

If you’d like to purchase things that are actually done by me, you can find t-shirts on my Society6 Store and you can pick up signed copies of my books in my Etsy store.

Thanks, everybody!

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Seville,Spain (by C.Reyes)

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https://instagram.com/p/BVXReBzh8mv/

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Krk, Croatia (by Ioana Lungu)

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The biggest scam your brain is telling you is that everybody else is human and allowed to make mistakes but that you yourself have to be perfect and flawless to deserve their company

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St-Chely-du-Tarn, France (by Natalie Trancart)

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman

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oh to be a small loaf of bread cooling on a windowsill

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Cascais, Portugal (by Itziar)

Plan your Summer 2020 Holiday in Portugal here

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“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.” - Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

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Valeggio sul Mincio, Italy

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Need for attention is normal and common to all humans. Need for comfort is normal and common, need for physical touch is normal, need for validation, for someone to be on your side, for acknowledgment, for positive reaction to yourself, a safe space, need to belong somewhere, need to relate to others, need to express yourself, to talk about yourself, to voice your pain, to feel valued and important, need to connect with others, it’s all normal and a part of just being a human being.

Don’t beat yourself up over having those, if you’re struggling with some of them particularly it doesn’t mean you’re “needy” it means you got way less of it than other humans, anyone who doesn’t get those things would go to deprivation mode and end up craving them severely while also anxious they would be taken away since those needs not being met was always the default.