i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses

reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube

A commonly overlooked symptom of depression is anhedonia, the inability to feel joy or pleasure. The reason that it's easy to overlook is that it's easier to miss the absence of something that's not around all the time than it is to miss a symptom that causes active distress, such as feeling tired and miserable all the time.

Anhedonia is good at being a persistent undercurrent to your life. My aunt, who has major depressive disorder, related to me that she figured out that something was wrong when she looked at the daffodils she had planted blooming, and couldn't recognize the emotion that she felt when she looked at them. It had been long enough since she had felt happy that she lost the ability to recognize the emotion.

It's a particularly dangerous depressive symptom, because it robs you of the ability to feel those little spots of joy that keep a lot of people going, while not doing anything to impair your ability to function. If you don't know that this is a treatable symptom of depression, it's easy to assume that your ability to feel good is permanently broken, and decide to commit suicide because you don't want to live like that. It's not an irrational conclusion, but it is an uninformed one, and everyone deserves to have all the information when making a major decision.

This is what a lot of questionnaires are trying to look for when they ask about "loss of enjoyment". If you can't remember a loss of enjoyment because you can't remember enjoyment, then you probably have anhedonia. If you struggle to define how it is to feel "happy", "content", or "good", or how it feels when you feel those emotions, you probably have anhedonia. If you can't remember feeling any of those emotions for a week or more, you probably have anhedonia.

Symptoms commonly co-occurring with anhedonia are fatigue (often the cause), clear and thoughtful consideration of suicide, loss of desire to socialize or do activities that used to make you happy, and weight loss (due to lack of enjoyment of food).

This section is anecdotal. In what I have observed, anhedonia due to fatigue rarely responds well to depression treatment unless depression was causing the fatigue. If fatigue and anhedonia are co-occurring and are not both alleviated by depression treatment, consider other causes for the fatigue.

Erica Slaughter by Andrew MacLean

Something is Killing the Children #25 [Textless] (Incentive Variant) (2022)

Art by: J.G. Jones

Got really into Something is Killing the Children recently, and I just think Erica Slaughter is pretty neat

Something is Killing the Children 36 FOC cover by Artgerm + spot foil variant.

Erica Slaughter from Something is killing the Children commission by Francis Portela

SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN #21 (COVER ART BY DAN MORA)

Something is Killing the Children #11 (2020)

Art by: Werther Dell'Edera and Miquel Muerto

Something is Killing the Children (2019) #17

Did some fanart of Erica Slaughter because I wanted to! I've been catching up reading Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera (I still need to pick up vol. 6, and 7 when it comes out in Feb). I adore the art and the writing. The comic has been such a great source to study as I work on my own comics. Forever obsessed with the art and the composition, as well as the pacing of the story and the characters. There's just so much I love about it.

Erica Slaughter by Rossi Gifford