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"Same" "Mood" "this hit home" "Relatable" and many of us are depressed
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Me. Same. Relatable.
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No mood because I learned English properly
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Depression in my opinion - is not really a mental illness. I say that because I’m depressed a lot of the time, but as hard as it does try, it’s not really debilitating. At least not permanently. Depression by definition is just concentrated, excess unhappiness. I have a lot, and imagine a lot of people have a lot to be unhappy about... but there’s shit to get done. I muscle through it, so that one day I won’t have to at all. It’s not easy, but it is possible.
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This meme on the other hand has less to do with depression imo. It’s just logical - life has been a bitch to a good number of us. It’s logical to expect it will do so again. We also have a bad habit of becoming paranoid during our rare moments of joy, so we link the two phenomena. That doesn’t actually mean they’re related.
I've got a few people you should meet before coming to such a bold conclusion.
Also for something to be a mental illness it has to fit 2 criteria. 1 being something to do with the mind, and 2 having an adverse effect on the person life.
Having had more than one suicide attempt when I was heavily depressed in high school I can safely say it had an adverse effect on my life.
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@Bethorien I don’t come to conclusions lightly. I literally wanted to kill myself yesterday. I have the text to my best friend to prove it, and hours of undocumented self-contemplation to accompany it.
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I’ll never do it. I see it as “quitting” or “taking the cowards way out” - which isn’t really my thing, but if you really can relate, trust me when I say that the desire was very very real. Yesterday was the worst day in 3 months, and things were even worse 3 months ago.
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It has had an adverse effect on my life. I guess where I’m coming from is: i won’t let it have an adverse effect forever. Occasionally it gets the better of me because I’m just not in a position to stop it. That will not always be the case.
Although I disagree with you, don't see the point in starting a pointless debate. I will say however that dude, if you feel like you want to kill yourself even once please see somebody. Even if you know you want do it that's a horrible way to live.
Also yeah this post is actually a really common feeling cause the brain associates anything if it happens once, it only has to be 1% familiar for the brain to react in the exact same way as it did to that last threat.
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Counselling doesn't work for me. And that's not me talking, that's a psych's words. My trust issues go so deep, I don't really 'heed' anyone but myself - which is probably a problem unto itself.
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If I'm ever going to "get better" permanently - it's on me.
Then your psych is an idiot cause that's not how therapy works. I get your point but there are a million different methods to use in therapy but none of them will work unless you want to get better. You also have to put in the effort to find the right psychologist/psychiatrist for you, it takes time.
You won't ever get better permanently, that hardly ever happens, getting yourself help is just help, it helps you better manage and improve yourself and gives you ways to better address your issues. You don't have to take what I say, no one with your mindset ever does. I'm not saying that to be rude or negative but I used to think like that so I know I wouldn't have trusted or believe what anyone else said because they aren't me, they don't know how I feel, they don't know what I've been through.
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"Same" "Mood" "this hit home" "Relatable" and many of us are depressed
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No mood because I learned English properly
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Depression in my opinion - is not really a mental illness. I say that because I’m depressed a lot of the time, but as hard as it does try, it’s not really debilitating. At least not permanently. Depression by definition is just concentrated, excess unhappiness. I have a lot, and imagine a lot of people have a lot to be unhappy about... but there’s shit to get done. I muscle through it, so that one day I won’t have to at all. It’s not easy, but it is possible.
.
This meme on the other hand has less to do with depression imo. It’s just logical - life has been a bitch to a good number of us. It’s logical to expect it will do so again. We also have a bad habit of becoming paranoid during our rare moments of joy, so we link the two phenomena. That doesn’t actually mean they’re related.
Also for something to be a mental illness it has to fit 2 criteria. 1 being something to do with the mind, and 2 having an adverse effect on the person life.
Having had more than one suicide attempt when I was heavily depressed in high school I can safely say it had an adverse effect on my life.
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I’ll never do it. I see it as “quitting” or “taking the cowards way out” - which isn’t really my thing, but if you really can relate, trust me when I say that the desire was very very real. Yesterday was the worst day in 3 months, and things were even worse 3 months ago.
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It has had an adverse effect on my life. I guess where I’m coming from is: i won’t let it have an adverse effect forever. Occasionally it gets the better of me because I’m just not in a position to stop it. That will not always be the case.
Also yeah this post is actually a really common feeling cause the brain associates anything if it happens once, it only has to be 1% familiar for the brain to react in the exact same way as it did to that last threat.
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If I'm ever going to "get better" permanently - it's on me.
You won't ever get better permanently, that hardly ever happens, getting yourself help is just help, it helps you better manage and improve yourself and gives you ways to better address your issues. You don't have to take what I say, no one with your mindset ever does. I'm not saying that to be rude or negative but I used to think like that so I know I wouldn't have trusted or believe what anyone else said because they aren't me, they don't know how I feel, they don't know what I've been through.