[ Photo ID: A clip from a show where Hannah Gadsby talks about her experience with a quest. Each photo is a snapshot with subtitles. The transcript is as follows, “But I- A couple of years ago a man came up to me after my show. He had an opinion. Now in the show, is spoken about taking antidepressant medication, and he had an opinion on that. Now interestingly is also spoken about how unhelpful unsolicited advice is in a mental health plan… he mustn’t have heard that bit. He said ‘You shouldn’t take medication because you’re an artist. It’s important that you feel.’ He said, ‘If Vincent Van Gogh had have taken medication, we wouldn’t have the sunflowers.’ I never ever ever thought that my art history degree would come in handy. I tore that man a new college debt sized arsehole. I said, 'Good opinion, mate. Except that he did medicate. He self-medicated a lot. He drank a lot. He even nibbled on his own paints. He didn’t just paint sunflowers, he did write a few portraits of psychiatrists. Not even random ones. Psychiatrists who were treating him. And medicating him. And there’s one particular portrait of one particular psychiatrist, and he’s holding a flower, and it isn’t a sunflower. It’s a foxglove. And that foxglove forms part of a medication that Van Gogh took for epilepsy. And that derivative of the foxglove medi-fucking-cation.’ I must have skipped a dose that day because I was feeling. 'The derivative of the foxglove, of you overdose a bit, you know what happens? You can experience the color yellow a little too intensely. So perhaps we have sunflowers precisely because Van Gogh medicated. What do you honestly think, mate?’ I said. 'That creativity means you must suffer? That’s the burden of creativity? Just so you can enjoy it? Fuck you, mate. If you like sunflowers so much, buy a bunch and jerk off into geranium.’ ” End ID ]
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