About

Draw What Depression Feels Like is an exploitable image series featuring a woman holding up a blank piece of paper under the caption "We Asked Her To Draw What Depression Feels Like. This Is What She Drew…" Online, people photoshop different absurd and humorous images onto the paper.

Origin

On May 14th, 2016, BuzzFeed ^[1] published a listicle entitled "We Asked Her To Draw What Depression Feels Like. This Is What She Drew…" Number five on the list featured a woman holding up a notebook with the words "People think I like pumpkin spice lattes" on it (shown below).

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Two days later, Twitter ^[2] user @egypttian tweeted a screenshot of the image with the caption "And ppl think I'm a terrorist Becky, get over it." The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 103,000 retweets and 138,000 likes in a year and a half.

That day, Twitter^[3] user @heliumdreams posted the image with DoodleBob photoshopped over the image. The user captioned the image (shown below, right) "We Asked Her To Draw What Depression Feels Like. This Is What She Drew… #DepressionIsADisease."

Several months later, Instagram ^[4] account @bonkers4memes posted a variation with a man drinking bleach on the notebook. The post (shown below) received more than 3,800 likes in one year.

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