This one stays with me — ever since I first read it, I cannot let it go. “Mental wellness is a social construct” says deep and, I think, true things, not just about our society and culture, but about the nature of society and culture.
To live in my own little walled estate around a permanent artesian well to water my garden. Sign on the gate, “This way to leave the mental asylum, limited entry.”
January 9, 2009
ALL of us? Dang. How’d we survive so long?
April 21, 2009
I know. Even without mental disorders and company, I don’t see how we made it through sabertooth cat times.
May 28, 2009
Yep; to be my own armchair: many identifiable disorders explode when one becomes consciously aware of that illness.
May 29, 2009
I liked this comic a lot.
:I don’t see how we made it through sabertooth cat
:times.
Through being brutal and well-organized predators. :)
June 4, 2009
That took a sobering turn at the end, there.
July 1, 2009
This was very amusing. Really Swell.
January 29, 2010
This one stays with me — ever since I first read it, I cannot let it go. “Mental wellness is a social construct” says deep and, I think, true things, not just about our society and culture, but about the nature of society and culture.
July 14, 2011
gardening helps thats true, but my favourite cure all is undie dancing. dancing round by yourself in your undies helps heaps. :)
August 10, 2011
Then the need to do something about not having mental wellness is a social construct as well.
September 30, 2013
To live in my own little walled estate around a permanent artesian well to water my garden. Sign on the gate, “This way to leave the mental asylum, limited entry.”
February 22, 2017
Mental illness is a social construct. But it isn’t JUST a social construct.