Abilify, a antidepressant supplement that keeps people on antidepressants from being depressed ("Yo dawg, we heard you like antidepressants so we put an antidepressant in your antidepressant so you can not be depressed while you're not being depressed) has two spots in which depression is represented as a googly eyed shape shifting black mass or a googly eyed bathrobe.
In both spots, for some reason, a cartoon doctor explains the possible side effects of and provides numerous warnings and caveats about Abilify to the cartoon lady afflicted with depression (plus extra depression) via a film of himself... which is smart, I suppose, since, like most medicines, the list of side effects is ridiculously long and convoluted, and memorizing it would be WAY harder than just carrying a screen, projector and prerecorded list of pharmacological horrors. Weirder still is that the google-eyed manifestations of depression sit next to the lady... they concurrently take notes on the doctor's film of himself.
Why is depression taking notes on the medicine designed to destroy it?! Does it just want to be prepared for the onslaught of forthcoming happiness? Is it looking for flaws in the plan that can be exploited (the wamprat sized exhaust vent in Abilify's Death Star)? Is depression just naturally studious? The answer does not come.
In the end, the depression is not destroyed by the supplemental medication, but is, instead, just slightly reduced in stature. So even with two medicines, depression still hangs around being all googly eyed and miserable. And that's kind of depressing
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