Taylor Swift, the antidepressant for a generation of teenagers: “She’s a comfort artist”

The star on her wrist reminds her that there will be better days. Rose, 17, clings to it. Her nagging depression will eventually leave her. She will draw strength from it, as Taylor Swift, her favorite artist, so aptly puts it. Her lyrics from the song “Cardigan” – “You drew stars around my scars” – inspired this tattoo on her skin.