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Discussion (8) ¬

1. 
   sakieh

   November 28, 2009 at 5:08 pm | # | Reply

   This does make me wonder: when is she going to show up at the “They all love Ace” table?
2. 
   Void Hamlet

   November 29, 2009 at 2:35 am | # | Reply

   Maybe, maybe, maybe she doesn’t love Ace, after all?
3. 
   Ninanoret

   August 29, 2010 at 6:10 am | # | Reply

   SCARY!!! and poor, poor Peg.
4. 
   Moody

   April 4, 2011 at 2:17 am | # | Reply

   nice tattoo though.
5. 
   Tom

   April 13, 2011 at 9:42 am | # | Reply

   Isn’t there a good chance Peg has adult ADD/ADHD as much as or even more than hypomania?
   Speaking as an underinformed layperson that seems possible to me.
   Have any of her therapists thought of treating that?
   What does she take, anyway — lithium bicarbonate, or what?

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     razmoudah

     May 11, 2012 at 8:49 pm | # | Reply

     Strictly speaking she doesn’t have an attention deficit (the diseases you mentioned are Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), it’s that her mind moves so much faster that she moves on long before everyone else. Now, modern ‘psychologists’ will argue with me on this, but she does seem to have Hyperactivity Disorder (the modern ‘psychologists’ claim that it is impossible to me hyperactive without being attention deficit, just tell that to my uncle who no one would ever claim suffers from any form of attention deficit and is without a doubt hyperactive, and he isn’t the only example I can drag out for them). The thing is, if you pay attention she is aware of, and remembers/pays attention to, what is happening around her, her mind just moves at several times the pace of the world around her.
6. 
   angeld

   November 13, 2011 at 8:35 pm | # | Reply

   As someone who is bi-polar, or manic depressive, Peg is a character who has really touched me. I am now correctly medicated, but some of the meds they tried me on before made me quite ill too, as they have no way to know which ones will work till they try them. I’m now on my 6th type of med and 9th combination of 3 different drugs.
   I know what its like to have a life changing event trigger off such an illness (although thats not always the case, it is quite often), to have a mind racing at such manic speeds that it feels like you’re losing control, but that feels better than stopping and letting the past catch up because you’re too damned afraid to face it on your own.
   Whatever happened in Peg’s past (possibly Steve?), seems to have hurt her enough that she can only be at peace when she feels comfortable with a person and protected, looked after. I’ve had friends like this and girlfriends and being a large, strong, gentle and sensitive guy, who at times understands more than he wants to, I’ve been the one, like Ace, who they’ve fallen asleep against. I’ve also had to wake them up when they’re screaming from the nightmares. And sometimes it was me being comforted or woken up. It is so upsetting and makes me so angry that some people can damage another like that, to make them so fragile, so that they can only ever find tiny snippets of peace, before having to go into red alert 24/7 again, living purely on nerves and adrenaline sometimes.
   I might have only just found this web comic, but thank you AndyO!, very nicely done dear sir, with a keen understanding of people, their insecurities, idiosyncrasies and beauties and a wicked sense of humor!
7. 
   Amentia

   April 12, 2012 at 8:57 pm | # | Reply

   First of all: great comic! I’ve just started to read it; although needed some days of intensiv reading to reach this strip (’cause I’m German and my English is… well, let’s say I’m a little bit rusty… XD)

   During the last few pages, I found myself surprisingly deep touched by this comic, especially the characters and their fates. The present self-image-strips are very interesting and well-considered. *thumps up*

   As for me I got to say, because of my own mental illness I had to deal with a lot of psychological stuff in the past – symptomes, causes, slight differences between mental illnesses, overlapping diagnosis and so on. (Pretty confusing stuff, all in all… will take a lot of years still, until depressed and unstable people get better help… )
   Actually I guess, Tom’s consideration about Peg having adult ADD/ADHD fits well. She’s pretty much of a good example for ADHD, I’d say – would be helpful maybe, if she goes for behavior therapy. Makes me kinda sad, every time she’s chattering without breathing, though it’s naturely funny too, somehow. Rather straining, when she never gets to stop her mind from racing an circling around, wouldn’t you say?
   But to mention it: problems like that develope in our youngest years… when we are small, pliable, adicted to our parents or other adults. Those illnesses are always rooted in childhood. Nevertheless every kind of trauma following in adult years, makes it even worse…
   Mixed feelings for me, I got a little ADD-prob myself, combined with BPD (borderline), but I’m doin’ pretty well today. So it’s nothing, that can’t be helped.
   That’s the good news. And I wish anyone who has such probs, that he will be uplifted soon!
   Take care and never give up!