It's morbidly ironic about three years after discovering this I get diagnosed with bipolar- Also I'm allergic to buspar 💀

He is morning, but she can’t escape her body. My brother, 23, and I, 21, spent years searching for our perfect concoctions. ADHD treatments is literally fixing my autoimmune disease after I got the right diagnosis.

I love this so much i come back to it every time i remember it , also ignoring the husband’s feelings is ignoring the meaning of the song is sad but both people are being affected no one is completely selfless in a relationship

love the line “valium is my favorite color”. wonderfully done art!

I was trying to learn about gabapentin side effects and I ended up on an anime Disney musical thing lol

Funny thing is, the lines "whos crazy/the one whos half gone/or maybe/the one who holds on" could really refer to either one. The implication is shes the one half gone, but is she not holding on? She keeps taking the medications, hoping that theyll find the right combo/dosage that will help her, even though none of it seems to be working without side effects she cant handle. Its frustrating as hell to find the right ones and its easy to fall into the mindset of "nothing works so i guess i just have to deal with this" and it can leave you feeling so hopeless that anything can get better and that it might be easier to just give up trying. Meanwhile hes stuck in the past from before her diagnosis. Whos really the one holding on?

Honestly this whole musical has helped me understand my grandmother better as she has bipolar disorder, just without the delusions

is still being worked on? just curious?

Everytime I come back looking for this it takes me 5 minutes to remember the name but each time it's worth it

2:05 2:45 4:37

Speaking of that, me and my class are working on this musical and it’s really fun💜✨

Gotta say: I do love my lithium

Just realized how I relate to do this because I have a history of several mental illness so for 18 years my doctors have been trying different medications to get things stable but one thing works for one thing but makes another worse etc.

"please tell me you don't mean that"

The best NTN animatic and it’s not technically Next to Normal Side note: how much do I have to offer you to animate the actual thing, dialogue and all?

I used to when this when this was new all the time. It was my favorite animatic I had watched. I have come back and was finally able to understand what this was talking about.

when people ask why Kanye west doesn’t want to take his medication

Too everyone who was here since the beginning and still listening during covid. I salute you my fellow soliders. Much love to the creator

The ending hit me on a personal level…. “ I I don’t feel anything…. I I feel numb’……. doc: “oh ok that means your stable things are working”….. OMG NO NO NO NO AAAHHHHHHH! ……. Standing ovation from me!

why is he kinda....

This might just be my most rewatched video

Anyone els always feel something after “without a little lift a ballorina falls”? Just me? Something about it just hits too personal

No one is talking about how good this musical is tho. It's not as popular, so tbh I was surprised when I saw the 1.8m views, but good job dude

This video reminds me of the darkest time in my life. I watched it all the the time back then and it helped me vent. thanks for making it

this song makes me so so sad, cause it is way..way too relateable for me. but i can't lie i love this song

This. Fucking. Song. This animatic is just beautiful. I feel for Dan so much. I was (and still am, to a much lesser degree) in his shoes. Mental illnesses of a loved one, especially significant other, really drie you down dark places you only visit in nightmares.His suffering here is only a sliver of the emotions he expresses at the end in I Am The One (Reprise). If Gabe represents mental illness and appears to those who actively acknowledge their illness, then it only makes sense that Dan has acknowledged and is ready to deal with his problems when Gabe appears to him. "I am the one who watched while you die." I thought I saw the mental illness in my loved ones die out as they got "better", but in reality, the mental illness watched me as I died inside, just trying to cope on a daily basis. This has been my life for the past 5 or so years. I'm nearing my 21st birthday. It's utter bullshit that we have to suffer like this, either first or secondhand. I'm just rambling at this point, this musical is a work of utter genius and this animatic is one of the most beautiful things I've seen, thanks for giving me a good cry :')

Me after aging 2 years and taking 2 college pyschology classes: That end result is not ideal dude, we want the patient to still have feelings-

Me watching falsettos and going WHAT IS THAT SONG, I knew I had it on a playlist and bam I found it in under a minute!!!

This song is the only reson I watched the whole musical and I wasn't disappointed

3:16 I now can't feel my fingers or my toes. I sweat prefusely for no reason

As someone with BPD that last line where she says she doesn't feel like herself hurts so much because it's so raw and real. A lot of medicine makes everything dull and grey and it's no surprise people stop taking them just to feel again.

part 2? i want them to get better

On the one hand these types of illnesses can utterly change a person, twisting even the best into a shodow of themselves or even a nasty bitter monster of a person. On the other hand Mr 'whats the point of a wife older than 25 who wont even put out whenever i want' gets none of my sympathy

TFW you start recognizing the pill names

what musical?

This is beautiful your work is amazing

GOD IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO FIND THIS

“He knows my deepest secrets, I know his name” Yeah real romantic

The actual musical as a whole is so sad. The death of their son is so emotionally and mentally breaking the wife loses her mind and loses her memory due to treatment, while the husband just silently suffers. I honestly feel so bad for the husband :((

This reminds me of those adds introducing a new drug where they tell you the possible side effects and you think, oh goodie now I just need to fill out 50 new prescriptions for the disorders, disabilities and diseases This one pill will give me, if it doesn't outright kill first.

The song makes me so uneasy and sad, but somehow I've watched this brilliant masterpiece so many times. This piece feels so different from the rest of the soundtrack because it's so desperate and the waltzy, My Favorite Things feel is so eerie when you see how messed up the family is.

1:53 he signs 16 (left hand) That's so COOL!!!!

wait you can tell by the tone of her voice and how she speaks lets you know when shes not being herself and when she is.I just found that interesting and im wondering how other people havent noticed that um-

Dizzyness, Drowsiness, Sexual Dysfunction, Panic Attacks, Tremors, Nightmares, Siezures, Diarrhea, Constipation, Nervous Laughter, Palpitations, Anxiousness, Anger, Exhaustion, Insomnia, Irritability, Nausea, Vomiting, and/or death Thats a lot

You guys have no idea how much I relate to the lines relatable the lines ''he knows my deepest secrets... and I know his name''after getting drunk with the person ur interested in hahkahahjfjl help-

This is such a good musical, my university put this on and Alice Ripley’s brother is the chair of the theatre department and she came to see it! It’s so good, everyone needs to watch it all the way through <3

this really reminds me of my parents my mom has severe depression and my dad has a personality disorder they won’t get a divorce cause they both think they’re too old and no one else will take them

Shoutout to this animatic for inspiring my dumbass freshman self to pick THIS song to translate as my final project. For the record that was my second year taking French ever.

The sad thing about this is that they referenced a happy song "my favorite things" And made it dark

Best part 1:00 . 3:34 . 3:57