depression comix

  • Comics
    • First Comic
    • Latest Comic
    • Illustrations
    • Guest Comics & Art
    • Extra Stuff
  • Characters
  • About
    • About depcom/Contact
    • Help For Depression
    • Subscribe
    • Articles About DepCom
    • Related Comics and Games
  • Please support
    • PayPal
    • Patreon by Strip
    • Patreon by Month
    • Buy a Ko-Fi
  • Blog
  • Return to CLAYCOMIX.COM

Story/Art © 2017 Clay

149 "Depression & Sex Drive"

Recurring Characters

Published October 10, 2013 21 Comments

depcom.149.col.400px

Become a patron at Patreon!

Share:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
« Previous
148
Next »
150

Comments

  1. Hannah Abanto FreyreHannah Abanto Freyre says

    October 10, 2013 at 9:50 am

    :c

    1
    Reply
  2. Anne EssAnne Ess says

    October 10, 2013 at 10:23 am

    How adorable, you assume people with depression have the desire to find someone to have sex with.

    1
    Reply
  3. Daniel WalkerDaniel Walker says

    October 10, 2013 at 10:37 am

    Anne – make half-assed criticisms about things outside the intended focus of a given work much?

    8
    Reply
  4. Chris KwakChris Kwak says

    October 10, 2013 at 10:38 am

    The point of these comics are to give people an insight to what depression is like and yes, some people do use sex to give themselves a false sense of connection or feelings through the intensity of an orgasm when everything else just feels numb. Its a quick fix, but it often creates dissention and further depression. Nothing about depression is adorable

    11
    Reply
  5. depression comixdepression comix says

    October 10, 2013 at 10:51 am

    I think you assumed way too much from one panel. Recent research has discovered a link between depression and hypersexuality. This can also include masturbation, but you can imagine why I did not decide to draw that in this comic. Instead of sarcasm, I will direct you to one study of this kind: http://www.dnaindia.com/health/1657335/report-depression-fires-up-the-sex-drive . In the future, you may want to scrap the misdirected sarcasm, it doesn’t help you or anyone else.

    4
    Reply
  6. depression comixdepression comix says

    October 10, 2013 at 11:06 am

    I will also add that the comic states hypersexuality is not always the case (third panel states as much). But for people who suffer from bipolar, both is often the case. Google bipolar and hypersexuality, lots of information there.

    Reply
  7. Anne EssAnne Ess says

    October 10, 2013 at 11:13 am

    Daniel – make half-assed assumptions about how I personally experience depression?

    Reply
  8. depression comixdepression comix says

    October 10, 2013 at 11:19 am

    Anne, if you have nothing to offer here instead of hostility, you’re better off not reading this comic.

    3
    Reply
  9. depression comixdepression comix says

    October 10, 2013 at 11:20 am

    And actually, Anne, in your first post here you were making a half-assed assumption about how others, like myself, experience depression.

    4
    Reply
  10. Tonya WoolardTonya Woolard says

    October 10, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    This is exactly what I did most of my adult life, empty sex. Lots of it.

    1
    Reply
  11. Koz says

    October 13, 2013 at 3:24 am

    This is my life, switching back and forth between both. Fun stuff!

    Reply
  12. Dan says

    December 13, 2013 at 10:23 am

    Sex and depression and self-worth are so horribly tied together in me that I doubt I will ever have a successful romantic/sexual relationship.

    Reply
    • Raye says

      March 9, 2014 at 2:05 pm

      Well, being self aware is the first step. You should work on that aspect and grow from there. 🙂

      2
      Reply
  13. Razel says

    January 10, 2014 at 7:10 am

    And this counterpoints an uncomfortable aspect of my life – my wife is hyper-sexual, yet I am hypo-sexual. She says she just wants me to ‘love her’ and when I try to explain that ‘love is more than sex’ she can understand it intellectually, but the lack thereof is still consumed and regurgitated by the depression. The scales start to tip back at these points and I begin to wonder if I’m not the one with a mental dissonance, somehow incapable of expressing love the same way others do, and what with the overt sexualization of everything in our society, it almost becomes its own overwhelming fear of uncertainty heralded form parts unknown with no basis in fact or logic. I simply *am*.
    I try to reassess with that feeling juxtaposed onto my wife to better understand her side of things, albeit from a different angle, but somehow I don’t think that’s healthy, applicability or otherwise.

    1
    Reply
  14. owl says

    May 24, 2014 at 11:48 pm

    Hypersexuality is also a true addiction. People are used for others’ sex addiction. You need not have a depressed partner in order to question if you’re being used for sex.

    Reply
  15. ButtsMcGee says

    August 22, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    I wish someone would want to have sex with me.

    Reply
  16. Brea says

    March 24, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    I can relate to this a lot. When I was still in a relationship, sex was one of the few times that I could feel free. I don’t understand why yet, but when I did, I was able to experience emotions so strongly and felt so much like my old self again: energetic, creative, passionate. When it ended, it would fade away again and I’d go back to a state more-or-less of blankness. Then I’d just be looking forward to the next time my partner would be up for it.

    There were many times I was happy and felt love too, but sex was when it was the purest, when I was 100% myself again. I missed Me so much and still do.

    This makes me think of the blood circulation. Perhaps getting back into exercising regularly will help me feel like Me again soon. The only obstacle is to get myself to exercise. I have two goals this spring: start seeing a therapist and start regularly exercising. Find a way to make myself no matter how terrified I am to leave my room or how heavy my body feels in bed. I’m too afraid of what might happen if I stay, more than if I leave at this point… I really hope I stay that way.

    Thanks for your comics. You have a great way to explain our experiences that I otherwise couldn’t do. They’re really validating and it’s comforting knowing that I’m not just being a jerk or lazy or stupid.

    Reply
  17. I feel this says

    September 14, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Almost always when I have sex I keep waiting for it to be over. While it’s enjoyable, it’s like it’s not worth the effort, which means that more often than not I prefer to be the dead fish in the equation. Even when I put in almost no effort (which of course is no fun for my partner) I still spend a lot of the time waiting for it to end. I’m just mentally not there, even if my body is. Doesn’t help that I due (I assume) to both my depression and the medication I take for it can’t seem to orgasm. It’s frustrating for several reasons, but one is that I can want to have sex and even initiate it, but half way through I don’t really want it anymore, and I feel guilty about all the times I’ve ended it mid-way. It must ruin my partner’s experience when he notices that I’m not very into it. It also makes me very selfish in bed – I want him to put in all the effort and I want all of the reward. I also never really actually want to give him one-sided attention in bed, even if I do do it, since it would be unfair otherwise. The only thing motivating me is that I want him to feel good, but considering my incredibly self-centered world view, it’s not the best of motivations unfortunately.

    Reply
  18. MaahHeim says

    November 6, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    At the worse times I always feel this ridiculous need to have sex. I want to feel wanted for once.

    Reply
  19. Sometimes the bear says

    March 26, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    Another really horrible aspect of this is having such low self-esteem that you’ll have sex with anyone interested because it’s the only way to feel valued. Not loved, just capable of doing something not-terrible for another human being.

    Reply
  20. jackmarten says

    April 14, 2018 at 1:29 am

    for some reason i’m thankful i’m single … no need to deprive others from their natural needs when they need them, mere because i do not feel the need for such “needs” anyway at all ….

    Reply

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

CLAYCOMIX - depression comix - The Dead Sisters - broken heart comix - The Haunted Me
Learn more
This is default text for notification bar
Learn more
 

Loading Comments...