It's very true. By the same vein of logic of 'you have nothing to be depressed about people have it worse than you" is really no different than saying "you have nothing to be happy about people have more than you."
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· 7 years ago
This kid is awesome. My husband tried to say the same thing to me, saying his life has been way worse than mine and I have no right to feel the way I do, which made me worse because I agreed with him to a point. But I've now accepted that although yes I have no real reason to feel the way I do, I can't help being the way I am. Depression doesn't always have a valid reason to latch itself onto you like a parasite..it just DOES.
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Yup. Reason mine started so early was due to genetic factors & some health issues got the ball rolling towards the steep hill of the downward spiral of depression.
It's people like y'all who say there's a set age for depression who contribute to the issue. If it wasn't for the 'you're too young to be depressed' or 'too young to have panic attacks', I probably would've gotten help much sooner and it would've saved me a ton of pain. Mine wasn't taken seriously until I was about 13 and I started to heavily withdraw from everyone, stopped eating and sleeping, and began to have suicidal thoughts and idealizations. Plus the extreme wrecklessness that I started to do in the path of self destruction.
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My mom also had a friend who's son committed suicide at about 8. And that's roughly how old I was, looking back at it now that I know those feelings of sheer hopelessness were not normal, was about how old I was when I began to experience symptoms.
Yup. Reason mine started so early was due to genetic factors & some health issues got the ball rolling towards the steep hill of the downward spiral of depression.
It's people like y'all who say there's a set age for depression who contribute to the issue. If it wasn't for the 'you're too young to be depressed' or 'too young to have panic attacks', I probably would've gotten help much sooner and it would've saved me a ton of pain. Mine wasn't taken seriously until I was about 13 and I started to heavily withdraw from everyone, stopped eating and sleeping, and began to have suicidal thoughts and idealizations. Plus the extreme wrecklessness that I started to do in the path of self destruction.
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My mom also had a friend who's son committed suicide at about 8. And that's roughly how old I was, looking back at it now that I know those feelings of sheer hopelessness were not normal, was about how old I was when I began to experience symptoms.