Depressed Dave Comics

30/06/2025

TIL that my book is available on Amazon in a Kindle format!

https://www.amazon.com/Depressed-Dave-Understanding-Depression-Inside-ebook/dp/B09KG739LJ

If you read the book and would like to leave a review, that's a good place to do it. :)

Thank you for anyone who supports my work.

Print version can be ordered from the publisher:
https://graceworks.com.sg/store/category/societal-issues/depressed-dave/
Google Books version:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Depressed_Dave_Understanding_Depression_from_the_I?id=F3tKEAAAQBAJ&hl=en-US

Drawing—literally and figuratively—from his experience with depression, Mak (the author), along with his delightful cast of ‘stick’ figures, takes readers on a brutally honest, wonderfully insightful and deeply touching exploration of what it’s like to live with depression. From causes and...

27/06/2025

Continuing the animated series! (So proud of the team). What do you think your next three steps will be? And how can you take care of yourself enough to be able to do them?

26/06/2025

Second animated comic about self care. Self care isn't selfish - sometimes saying No is part of self care!

What do you think?

22/05/2025

In collaboration with NUS Health and Wellbeing - But honestly I could never have animated this that well!!

29/04/2025

Sometimes, Look Here

It's okay to feel like the world has passed us by. It's okay to feel like it's so unfair. That we've got so much catching up to do. That we'll never be enough.

But we are enough. Right here and right now. Even if that's hard to believe.

Maybe.

*It's been getting even harder to draw lately. Still on hiatus. If you're reading this, I hope you're well enough.

03/04/2025

Sometimes, Try Kindness

We sometimes can't see the effort we're putting in just to stay unmoved by our struggles, the voices outside, and the voices in our heads.

Maybe being kind to ourselves when we're struggling might help a little. Or asking for kindness from those who are able to be kind. Just so we can stand still for a while longer before carrying on.

*On Hiatus still. I'm just posting when I'm just able to.

25/02/2025

Sometimes, It's Negative

[On Hiatus]

Negative thoughts aren't always healthy or helpful.

But simply telling someone struggling with negative thoughts to pretend they don't exist is also neither healthy nor helpful, and in fact, is probably more unhealthy and unhelpful.

11/02/2025

Sometimes, Breathing Hurts.

[On Hiatus]

I've been thinking about where Depressed Dave should head.

I guess sometimes, it's good to just go back to basics and say, this is what depression feels like.

Sometimes.

23/01/2025

This is the last comic about facing our negative emotions! It may be the most challenging yet.

How many of these statements can we say to ourselves? How do we feel when we say these things? Can we even agree with all of these statements?

If we really work through and understand our negative emotions, they can really help us - not just for those who need to heal (and who doesn't?), but also just for us to understand ourselves better. Why we react to certain things and not others. What matters to us.

And above all, it's never weak to face our emotions. Personally, I've found that it needs even more courage than to ignore them - but what do I know.

Heads up - posting may be irregular to non-existent for a while. I'm struggling with my depression harder lately, and also trying to make sense of where Depressed Dave will head. I've been struggling to draw, and that hurts and sucks.

Thank you for being here, everyone!

14/01/2025

I ruminate. A lot. It's part of why I need to have music or a video in the background, especially if I need to concentrate. The brain tends to wander, and very often, guilt and frustration are part of that picture. Before depression, it wasn't close to being this bad.

Working through my emotions, and in a related fashion, my past and the reasons why I think a certain way, is very important. The goal is to allow myself to learn how to arrest these thoughts, and take away the power they have over me by thinking differently and/or acting differently. If not, the rumination continues, and has no place to go because simply telling myself to stop it doesn't actually do anything.

No, really. Just telling ourselves to stop ruminating doesn't actually work. Because the first moment the brain gets, it'll go back to repeatedly thinking over those things in our past that we haven't been able to let go of. Working through them helps us to let go. Telling others to let go doesn't help them to let go. (Duh!)

So let's work through our emotions - so that we can move past rumination, and not fall further into it.

31/12/2024

Healthy Moves

It's counter-intuitive, but when we feel bound by our thoughts and emotions, we feel like we have no choices left. So we want more control over them - but the more we try to control by repression and sitting on them and packing them away, the more we struggle when they burst out again. Which limits our choices even more.

Instead, facing our emotions and thoughts, especially the negative ones, allow us to find healthy ways to deal with them, and decide how we want to proceed. For really bad struggles such as in depression, it can get a lot harder because we have a lot of conditioning and psychological grooves to get past.

But the choices that will appear when we are healthier, will help us to grow even more healthily.

Also, it's the end of a year, but for many of us, that just means time is still ticking on while we feel stuck. To all of us who feel this way, Dave and I send care and kudos for even being able to just stand still in the storm this year! Thank you for being here with us.

25/12/2024

Christmas break so no comic.

May this holiday season be a comforting and peaceful one for you. It might not be easy for some of us. That's okay too.

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