Comic strip analysis

TREATING PHYSICAL ILLNESSES LIKE MENTAL ILLNESS A. In this comic strip we have multiple characters suffering from a physical injury or suffering from illness and then we have others trying to consult them the same way people consult others with mental illness. B. From the first panel I have proceeded that this man is laying in pain due to food poisoning and his friend is simply just telling him if he could try not having it which is impossible to do on our own. C. First panel: the man is laying in bed in pain and is told if he could try to just not have food poisoning. Something similar is told to a person with depression “can’t you just stop being depressed”. Second panel: a man is bleeding excessively from a very serious injury but is told “change your frame of mind and you’ll feel better”. This is also something told to a person with depression because it’s hard to understand why some people can’t just be positive with a positive outlook on life. Third panel: A woman is slumped over a toilet appears to be throwing up and a man is hurdling over her saying “have you tried you know… not having the flu”. Which again is impossible to do on our own without either medication or seeing a specialist. The same thing with depression it’s impossible to just stop being depressed without help from a specialist and sometimes even medication. Fourth panel: a man is injecting himself with medication and is being told by a woman isn’t he worried that is changing him? People have the same question when others take medication for depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Fifth panel: the man in the green shirt is bleeding frantically from his hand and is being told by the other man “it’s like you’re not even trying”. The man is “not even trying” to stop bleeding but he wants to get better doesn’t he? Same question asked with mental illness. Sixth panel: a man is laying on a hospital bed, unconscious, in what appears to be a coma and the woman hovering over him is saying “well laying in bed obviously isn’t going to make you any better”. Often times people suffering from mental illness seclude themselves from others by locking themselves in their rooms staying in bed all day because they don’t know how to cope with their illness so they sleep it off. D. If we were to treat mental illness like we do physical illness we would have more progress in ridding many people of their mental illnesses. But we don’t because often times we see mental illness as something that is all in your head, as something that you put yourself in but that is untrue. Depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, schizophrenia, bulimia etc. Are all common examples of mental illnesses found in many people and even worst, in young minds. Some try to reach out for help but are shot down because well it’s not like it’s a physical Injury, that is until self harm comes into play, along with making yourselves throw up, and even worst suicide but it shouldn’t take a physical harm to be taken seriously!!! We are human we hurt from the inside and out and mental illness is something that should be taken just as serious as physical illness!!