i agree
when people don't know how to express something in words they have to do it in physical way
we must not judge too fast

I don't know where "actor starving for attention" idea even came from. When did people start jeering at people who express emotions? Why?

I have been told many times that I am attention seeking too. I am quite confused now.

I really don't like how people do absolutely nothing but complain about everything... I mean, it's not bad to get that sort of thing out of your system, but if you just KEEP ON WHINING you need head trauma.

And yes I realize that I am indeed complaining right now.

--
Straight people are just gay for the opposite sex.

It's sad that we live in a world with labels like "emo" and "attention-whore" for people who genuinely suffer depression - strong, mild and light forms of it - my friends don't understand *those who are my age* that my dad's death and screwed up family has shook me badly...they say I do it to get attention.
This picture really speaks out to me and I love it...it's so truthful to our world and the way we all think.

--
=Aura-Moon ~ScarzTEchidna ~ Since August 2006

Want to be part of my gen project? Follow this link!-[link]

Support the Men and Women who fight for your freedom!

I TOTALLY agree with you.
Depression is very difficult and painfull psychic illness, and it's VERY hard to win with it.
I had a depression for over 10 years and I didn't even know that it was a depression, and thanks to 3 people I was able to fight with it and I won. I was very lucky to have them beside me, because without them I wouldn't be here today.
Of course most of the hard work I have done, but noone could do it for me. Only I could do that. I made it, but I heard from the others something like "grow up", "get your act together" and so on.
I have no idea why people (friends and family) doesn't believe someone when he's/she's saying that he/she has a depression. I can not understand that. Are they afraid or something?
I don't get it.
I'm not talking about people who just act that they are depressed (emo), to get the attention of the others. I'm talking about people who are really sick. It's awful, when you're screaming for help, and almost everyone pretend that they don't hear that. Or just don't want to hear, but when they realise that something is wrong and that someone really needs help, it's too late.

--
My journey's over I'm standing on the edge
And close my eyes to this world of lies..

My will is broken it's the end of all my dreams
My soul yearns for the valley of the queens..

This reminds me of the shakespearian saying from MacBeth, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Alot of people only see us but do not hear us when we wish to give in to our hearts and releave ourselves of the sorrow that cause us to ache. They do not wish to have it upon themselves to help bear the burden that weighs us down. If we kept everything to ourselves we would become twisted and and hollow on the inside and be filled with nothingness. I like this picture... it expresses alot. It tells of being seen and of not being seen, or being heard but having all we say fall upon deaf ears. He waves a banner that desplays his call for help, but it goes unnoticed. Many are not able to come up and say, "I need help... please help me," they have too much pride to do such. They rely on us to know what they are asking when they give us those sad looks, when they tell us of the hurt that they feel. Ask not if they need help for they have already asked you for it, you just need to figure out how. Great job, keep it up and always do I wish you much.

--
To lose what you hold dearest is to lose yourself.

I am slightly manic depressive, I've refused to go back on my meds because the last couple times they didn't exactly "help" in the way I was told they were. Most people tell me to cheer the fuck up not realising the actual cause of my 'episodes'.

My family life was basically a nightmare. It's only just actually reformed to a point where I'm older, wiser and my family is now aware I am manic depressive. For about 15 years, they figured I was 'lay acting for attention' and ignored my pleas for help. I think after being diagnosed as manic depressive a couple years' ago, people started working out I wasn't acting, nor was I seeking attention. I was crying for help, and since I was basically an only child in a family whose monetary assistance for such evaluation services was limited, no one could tell me why I was so unhappy.

The trend term for my kind of depression is "Emo". It's nothing to people who consider "emo" to be related to goths. Everyone gets depressed, it does not have anything whatsoever to do with whether or not you have an interest in wearing black clothing 24/7, writing morbid poetry or have an interest in death. Nothing to do with the matter AT ALL. People tend to draw parallel to the term of "Emo" to people who are depressed/manic depressed. Hell, I've heard unintelligent doctors use the term to describe my depression. It proves the world's blind eye sees it as "just one thing", when it's clearly not.

My friends never figured I was depressed a lot in school - I hid it so well because I didn't understand what was wrong with me. Until I was diagnosed by a hospital doctor as being manic depressive, EVERYONE thought they "knew" what was wrong with me. They figured they could "help" me by trying to bully me into being "normal".

I'm ranting though.
I've always loved the depth and the meanings of your artworks. You stir a lot of mixed feelings in people when you write such descriptions and it is a very good thing too - it's what makes people think more than simply looking at the picture and drawing their own conclusions from it.

Depression is never an act. It's a cry for help which usually goes ignored by people who see only one side of the person they know.

Beautifully stirring work.
[]
~

--
What I think, I create.
What I create, I draw.
What I draw, I love.
What I love, is everything to me.

I prefer creativity, originality, dynamics and sassiness over cut and paste and paintfill and trace.

I learn from honest critique. Do you?

It's very easy to tell who is depressed, no matter how much they show nothing to me. There's always a slight slouch in their regular action, or emotion.

--
My sig is cooler than yours.

Excellent Artwork and narration!

I have seen people who have "acted" to get attention. Though most of the time it was not for depression. Most of the time, the acting was similar to a small child throwing a tantrum so her/his parents will by a new toy or something.
In terms of acting depressed...it really doesn't make much since, to me. Why would someone act depressed? If they want attention, shouldn't they be more forward to grap peoples attention than, acting depressed, recoiling from from everyone else? I think there are attention seekers out there, but most do not "act" depressed to get attention. They get attention by being the class clown, try to look pretty, being a little destructive, etc. The people who "act" depressed, most of the time are.

--
COME VISIT THE WRONGSIDE WEBCOMIC!
[link]