Influenced

Skull with Burning Cigarette, 1885

Vincent van Gogh

It wasn’t because I didn’t like pink, it was because since I appeared female I was supposed to/ it was immediately assumed that I did and therefore it pissed me the ever-loving fuck off. I was ashamed to like it, which is terrible because pink is an awesome color. But when you shove it down young girls throats it gets really old, really fast. 

Me: 

Depression: It’s when there’s something funny going on with Sadness, and every time she touches something it turns blue. But not just memories - the train of thought, the console, even the cogs in headquarters all turn blue, and everything is sad, even stuff that used to be happy. And then everything stops working and it all turns grey - all the personality islands start shutting down and falling apart and the train of thought becomes really slow and all the machines stop working properly. And the medication you get for depression doesn’t make you happy, because it’s not Joy, but it does help everything to start working again, and helps to keep the mind and headquarters going so that that person can work on getting better.

Anxiety Disorder: It’s when Fear is at the console all the time. You know how he’s always making a list of all the things that could go wrong and he’s got hundreds? It’s like that, all the time. He’s always thinking of stuff that could go wrong and being really jittery at the console and sometimes he’ll even shut everything down because he gets so worked up over it, and everything stops working and he just keeps hitting the panic button over and over again.

Bipolar: It’s like Joy and Sadness are constantly fighting over the console. Sometimes Sadness is in charge, and it’s like depression - everything starts shutting down and stops working and Sadness makes everything Blue. Then when Joy takes over, she gets really excited and tries to make up for what Sadness has done, so she works overtime, and makes everything work twice as fast, and does silly things she shouldn’t.

ADHD: It’s when there’s a problem with all the machines and the computers in headquarters, so everything works twice as fast as it should, or sometimes they just don’t work at all. And instead of coming in once a day, the there are lots of different tracks and different Trains of Thought that are always coming in every few minutes. And instead of doing their job properly, all the Mind Workers keep sending random memories and thoughts up to Headquarters to be replayed over and over again so it makes it really hard to concentrate on what’s going on.