I have people I care about who are at home in their bed a lot because of medical issues, no one is bringing them flowers. I get what the comic is trying to do, truly. But analogies of things that are different are not good analogies.
not saying I’ll people aren’t left alone, just that for mental health issues, being alone tends to be the norm.
during my long depression, I genuinely wished I had a terminal disease, so I get to die and family/people would have to at least pretend to be nice to me, plus with opioids, I might actually feel some good emotion before I die. that isn’t a rare though for people with severe long term depression.
and many other mental health issues end up with depression due to isolation, stigma, and the nature of depression.
One is in the hospital, one is not. That is a key difference in the comparison attempting to be made.
Are you sure? I thought they were both hospitalized and that was the point. The second pic doesn’t look like someone’s bedroom.
If the person with mental health issues goes to the hospital, their stay is not spent in a room with flowers where others can visit.
Most of the time, sure, but doesn’t that just make this an even worse analogy?
people with mental health issues end up at home alone.
That’s not a fair representation of our society; a lot of them end up in the street or incarcerated as well.
It is even worse than I want to consider.
I have people I care about who are at home in their bed a lot because of medical issues, no one is bringing them flowers. I get what the comic is trying to do, truly. But analogies of things that are different are not good analogies.
not saying I’ll people aren’t left alone, just that for mental health issues, being alone tends to be the norm.
during my long depression, I genuinely wished I had a terminal disease, so I get to die and family/people would have to at least pretend to be nice to me, plus with opioids, I might actually feel some good emotion before I die. that isn’t a rare though for people with severe long term depression.
and many other mental health issues end up with depression due to isolation, stigma, and the nature of depression.