Comic Strips

Pills don't magically make people constantly happy. But without them it's barely possible to be happy in the moment

He still needs time to catch his breath. It’s like how getting a single good night’s sleep doesn’t leave you fully rested but it’s still important to do.

The first few steps aren’t “get better” but rather “stop feeling worse”.

Antidepressants aren't a silver bullet for mental health, they only bring you closer to your (healthy) baseline. The most difficult barrier to a healthy change for mental health is our obligation to waged work, and in some cases are the cause of poor mental health.

That's because it's a pill and not a joint, perhaps.

Well, it is a black dog. Keeping it at bay is often the best we can do.

He doesn't habebthe direct pain of being chewed on, but the beast lingers there waiting for the pills to wear off.

Of course they aren't happy.

I think that's the point.

That’s because he killed death with pills, apparently, and now he became death himself, as it can be noticed by black clothes in last panel. And it is hard and ungrateful work to be a death. Why would he be happy?

Because the cure is illegal.