I agree wholeheartedly. Mabel gets dismissed in this topic a lot because of her cheerful outlook on life and her colourful demeanor, so people tend to automatically assume this mean’s she’s fine. But mental health and human emotion aren’t so simple, and just because someone wears a smile a lot doesn’t mean they have no problems.



Let’s think on real life, for example. Who are some of the most commonly depressed people? Comedians. The people who get up on stage with smiles and big personalities and humour, yet they are remarkably often sufferring through mental health issues. People always assume such cheerful people must be fine without ever thinking about what’s below the surface, and admittedly a big piece of that is to do with how well the individual hides their problems, but at this point we as a species really ought to become a little more aware of the complexity of emotion and mental health, because it’s really not so cut and dried.



Mabel, as has been said, has displayed several symptoms of anxiety and depression, just as her brother has. Sweater town, emotional breakdowns (and I will never not be pissed about how little sympathy there is for her in these situations. The fandom just seem to think she should be instantly okay when shit hits the fan. The fandom reaction to DAMVTF is proof enough of that), self image issues (Irrational Treasure anyone? TLM?) and genuinely feeling like a bad person because of some vile unicorn.



I mean it was pretty clear from the start that that unicorn was a nasty, snobby little bully, but Mabel took every word to heart, even felt that the bully was a better person than her until she was revealed to be a liar by the other unicorns, even making a goddamn list of every mistake and error she had made, calling it her list of sins. She has shown fear of the future and growing up so severe that Bill was able to keep her under his spell and keep her desperately clinging to a fantasy world in which she was never even really happy (try as some people might to deny that -_-), because she was so terrified of facing reality.



If such a crippling fear of the world taking everything you love away from you doesn’t say anxiety, then I don’t know what does. So yeah, long story short, there’s no way in hell that Mabel wasn’t as badly affected by Weirdmageddon as the rest of the Pines’. That shit’s gonna be scarring and traumatizing regardless of how cheerful your disposition is.

