r/ShenComix • 🍋 LEMON STRUGGLER 🍋 • 7h ago

OC The Boy From Venus 16

It's really really cozy in the box btw ...

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u/zatchel1 6h ago

I genuinely haven’t been able to stop thinking about this panel. It’s so easy to be self destructive. Taking care of yourself takes so much more work. Val’s introspective hits so god damn hard.

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u/Vayalond 5h ago

Yup, depression and low self-esteem are fucking you up badly (because let's be honnest: often they goes together). You just stop to take care of yourself unless forced by circumstances (like having to go out), you make everything to not attract attention, to stay hidden. And you let yourself rot like that, being aware that it's not healthy but all it does is hurting your moral even more so you get less energy, creating a very bad cycle very ahrd to break