Question for those who've experienced depression
Why do you not show your sad face? Wouldn't it be healthier for everyone if you showed you were unhappy? You get to relieve some stress, and we get to know what's going on, we get to help, feel good about ourselves, and we all avoid the grief that comes later when "something" happens.
Im gonna talk for myself. In my experience, its exactly because I dont feel like I would have this support. Because peopoe will not even believe you or will try to brush it off as if its nothing.
For me, whenever I have opened up to anyone ( except my SO ) I have either been met with " oh my god shut up/why are you so whiny " or " my problems are worse than yours so you don't get to be depressed "
I recently had to dump a friend because he didn't take my social anxiety seriously and said it wasn't as bad as his even though he is HAPPY to be the center of attention all the time and never gets tired of being the center of attention in the 6 hears I knew him.
It may be healthier if you have support, but it can also make it feel a thousand times worse if the people around you make your feeling seem wrong to feel.
I show my sad face and people think I'm unfriendly and avoid me.
I have to pull a smile and say "I'm just tired, it's nothing--really" but boy do you really want to see the vortex of what goes on in *points to self* THIS. I've been like this so long I don't remember what happened that made me this way so it's become a part of my personality. The older pictures of me look happy. (Which is really sad since I've stopped smiling and only will for pictures to avoid the questioning)
When you're depressed, you also feel alone. If you show how unhappy you are, you feel like you're not going to have enough support and, from what actually happened to me, people are just like "shut up, your life is great."
That doesn't help.
People with depression really can't do that. Like it's pretty much impossible unless you're on meds.
It's like telling a socially anxious person to not care what other think or that a crippled person should start slow so they could walk again when there's 0% of ever walking again.
That's the attitude that keeps you in depression. Ya shure it's hard to keep a smile on your face but if you can, It helps a lot. I'm getting out of it by the thing I said and keeping a smile on your face
Not all of us can overcome it that way. It's a chemical imbalance and forcing myself to smile actually makes it a lot worse than just going by myself and letting emotions out.
Why do you not show your sad face? Wouldn't it be healthier for everyone if you showed you were unhappy? You get to relieve some stress, and we get to know what's going on, we get to help, feel good about ourselves, and we all avoid the grief that comes later when "something" happens.
I recently had to dump a friend because he didn't take my social anxiety seriously and said it wasn't as bad as his even though he is HAPPY to be the center of attention all the time and never gets tired of being the center of attention in the 6 hears I knew him.
It may be healthier if you have support, but it can also make it feel a thousand times worse if the people around you make your feeling seem wrong to feel.
I have to pull a smile and say "I'm just tired, it's nothing--really" but boy do you really want to see the vortex of what goes on in *points to self* THIS. I've been like this so long I don't remember what happened that made me this way so it's become a part of my personality. The older pictures of me look happy. (Which is really sad since I've stopped smiling and only will for pictures to avoid the questioning)
That doesn't help.
It's like telling a socially anxious person to not care what other think or that a crippled person should start slow so they could walk again when there's 0% of ever walking again.
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