This chapter considers broader scholarship on the role of art in health and affectAffect studies, as these shape the analysis of comics in subsequent chapters of this book. It discusses how focusing on form builds knowledge that renders women’s experiences of mental health present, embodied and urgent. It identifies examples of form and content combining into a method for analysing time by scrutinizing the way the polysemioticPolysemiotic nature of comics conveys complexity, specifically the multifaceted phenomenological experience of time in depressionDepression and schizophreniaSchizophrenia. It explores what graphic medicineGraphic medicine may draw from theories of contact between reader/viewer and writer/drawer, haptic visualityHaptic visuality, embodiment theory and theories of drawingDrawing. This clarifies the approaches and tools graphic medicineGraphic medicine may offer to interdisciplinary alliances investigating mental health and demonstrates the potential for increasing understanding of mental health experiences through drawingDrawing-as-an-embodied-thinking method for both mental health comics creators and graphic medicine readers/viewers.