- Sign: Burger & Co.
- Luna: Don’t think about the robber in Camden holding his gun against your head while your mom was bleeding to death in the kitchen.
- Luna: Don’t think about it.
- All: HOORAY
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[0757] Don’t Think About It
└ posted on Monday, 1 February 2016, by Novil
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Wait what?
well that went dark as hell in a relative short time.
@ Hideka Valheim:
explains luna’s father and her personality tho……. living with a nagging fear about your past can be pretty paralyzing.
Luna already told Sandra about the incident in the last panel of http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/01/12/0649-straight-outta-camden/
And here I was thinking that this was going to be just some fun date strip with maybe a joke thrown in, when suddenly…
FEELS
Thanks. I didn’t need my heart anyway. 😛
Invasive thoughts and PTSD are a nasty mix that can pop up at any time.
If anything, Luna might have thought about it because she’s so happy right now.
@ pretty flacko:
Don’t think about it, Morty!
PTSD can be pretty horrible. There are case studies of refugee children from Bosnia growing up in the 1990s in Britain suffering sudden PTSD attacks while out shopping with foster parents or playing in the park.
Its sad. Luna needs a hug 🙁
Oh please, I just want Luna to have some some happy time 🙁
It’s definitely not the right moment to remember those wounds.
That second panel is me when I have a project I forgot to do that is due in the class next period
@ billy:
I mean 5th panel
Guys, have you not noticed that the fat guy on the last panel pushed someone over the handrail?!
@ Drak:
Their doing the wave. Though I could expect that to also be the case at a football game.
O_O
Uhm… Well. Shit. I’ve got nothing.
Wow. This turned really dark really fast.
Dem feels.
Well, that escalated quickly.
😐
What the fuck.
This comic is actually pretty uplifting if you see it from my perspective. You see, instead of spending her time in a psych wards padded room screaming at the wall because somebody dropped a tray of food in the cafeteria at lunchtime and the bang reminded her of a gunshot, triggering an episode. She tries to spend her day with a boy she likes in spite of the fact that she still struggles with her past trauma.
There is hope for us all.
That went from 0 to 100 reeeeal fucking quick.
That hurt.
Really bad.
@ Novil:
Oh yeah, now I remember. That sequence was apparently overwritten by the awesome of Larisa with a flamethrower.
I that threw a wrench into what I thought this was going to be.
On a scale of 0 being “DARKNESS” to 10 being “As happy as can be!” that went from 9 to 0 in all of a single panel. Dang man.
People ask me what having PTSD is like.
This.
For those of you who are wondering: Yes, Camden is that bad. I’ve seen it.
I just want to give her a hug for what happened
Holy crap, man! What the hell was that?!
What’s he thinking about?
“Don’t think about how sweaty she is, don’t think about how sweaty she is…”
Is this a reference to how most people can’t help but think of painful or otherwise bad things when they’re finally experiencing something good/happy for a change?
Hooray for PTSD.
It just hit me: Luna is from Camden.
She’s an EAGLES girl. No WONDER she’s such a vicious football fan! GO PHILLY!
Why are half of you talking as if you never read Luna’s story? http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/01/12/0649-straight-outta-camden/
Don’t think about her death mom, don’t think about her death mom… Oooou… T_T
Sir, we’re reading high levels of PTSD!!
MaxArt wrote:
It is EXACTLY these moments when it pops up.
The wounds saying “You think you’re happy, but we’re still here!”
@ Novil:
Oh dear Gawd, I thought that strip was sarcasm!
It doesn’t have to reflect PTSD, those thoughts can be a symptoms of simple grief.
It may be survivor guilt. When Luna feels happy she becomes guilty because she survived and her mother didn’t. It isn’t rational but it happens anyway.
@ [0649] Straight Outta Camden
Oh my, no wonder people took that for sarcasm and forgot it. I’d only barely remembered because it was treated so casually, and their casual behavior wasn’t even called out.
Does Sandra know?
PTSD or survivor guilt, Luna shouldn’t have to deal with it on her own. Her dad needs help, too. Major depression is just as crippling. Unfortunately, when you’re in this state it can be impossible to ask for help or even to accept help when it’s offered.
This… happens. Trauma, depression, anxiety, probably other conditions, they can hit when it seems least appropriate, when there should be nothing to remind the person of the thing that triggers them. It’s as if the mind just grabs the most vulnerable memory in your mind and throws it in your face while saying “What are you doing trying to be happy?! Remember THIS?!”
Well done to Luna for being able to keep going past it. Many times that’s all you can do.
A gentle reminder wrote:
Not everybody starts reading at the beginning, though they should. As for me, I simply forgot.
is it almost time fore the dues ex machina plot device from 668 to come into play?
Novil wrote:
I’ve just realised something. I thought this was Yuna.
Jeez, that’s a lot worse than how she told it to Sandra.
Black comedy, I hope.
Otherwise she’s just further scarred by that than I thought.
The latter is probably it.
*shudder*
Wait…what?
Oh, wait. Read back a bit. All good now.
@ Hideka Valheim:
I was thinking the very same thing!
That went from ‘happy’ to ‘fuck you’ in a single panel.