[PATV] Monday, July 18, 2011 - Penny Arcade: The Series Season 1, Ep. 18: Drugs

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[PATV] Monday, July 18, 2011 - Penny Arcade: The Series Season 1, Ep. 18: Drugs

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AJay17

My favorite episode

Kyoka Suigetsu

The music captures the feeling of how bad depression can get perfectly. That dreadful white noise. Excellant episode.

Framling

I watched this episode like three times to psych myself up to talk to someone about my ADD.

pointy

I rewatch this episode every so often, whenever I talk to yet another friend who's suffering from crippling anxiety and wishes there were some way to change. Every time I watch it it makes me cry. I hope one day everyone who's crippled by anxiety will be able to break free from it.

LesStewart

This episode is not only a poignant description of dealing with ongoing anxiety disorders, but a shining beacon to those who feel that it simply won’t get better.
If the paragons of the gaming community not only acknowledge their own struggles with anxiety, but demonstrate that it can be overcome, dealt with in a healthy way, and not impede a successful personal trajectory, it lets all of us know that we can conquer it as well.
It really is hard to imagine the indelible impact Penny Arcade has had on the world.

Branthog

This is my first time watching this video. Imagine that more people in our daily lives are going through things like this than any of us actually know.

Brenderous

The "step on every bathmat" part really hit home for me. I was recently diagnosed with OCD, and while that's not exactly how it affected me, it was a lot like that. For me it was - well, IS - a fear of contamination.

The first time I watched this video was a few years ago before I knew I had OCD or even a problem with Anxiety (OCD is an anxiety disorder), but after going through treatment I wanted to watch this again. During treatment, I realized that I've shown smaller symptoms of OCD my entire life, I just never noticed them. Sometimes the fish can be the last to notice the water, right?

I'm glad this episode exists, it seems to have helped a lot of people

Also Penny Arcade rocks, woo!

King Kush

these are the guys who complained about peoble on XBL telling them how high they were

now they're using PA to tell us how high they are, like, so high, rolos tasted sooooo good

edit: WOOPS, POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG THREAD. I WAS GONNA POAST THIS IN ANOTHER THREAD


BUT

I WAS HIGH

:DDDDDDD

ALSO IN BEFORE THE JERRY AND MIKE DEFENSE TEAM CRACK DOWN

SERIOUSLY DO THEY PAY YOU GUYS

LalaLaurax

jedwardct

I've been dealing with anxiety, OCD, and bipolar disorder since 1995. I'm 44 now, disabled, and have spent a lot of time wondering this past year how to recover the creative drive and sense of humor and purpose that I felt I lost. Ironically, I joined here and then abandoned the idea out of social anxiety on the same evening.

The next day, I saw this episode. I pulled my drafting table out of the garage, hung my rulers and french curves and templates on the wall, and bought a new sketchbook.

Sometimes we look for - maybe hope for - big, astounding, almost cinematically dynamic and bombastic revelations to help us out. And although finding these guys on the web and becoming inspired by their work would seem a modest thing to some people, it's meant a lot to me this week.

Thank you both. Thank all of you at Penny Arcade, in fact. I think I'll be able to draw once again.

BlueThiefZero

This episode got me to talk to someone about my anxiety. I started seeing a doctor to talk things through and started taking medication. I did that for a year and hoped that my body would adapt and I wouldn't have to continue taking drugs just to not freak out in social settings. That was 3 years ago, but I think it is time to talk to someone about getting back on medication.