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skybirds15
· 5 years ago
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Depression probably leads to those things rather than the other way round
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creativedragonbaby
· 5 years ago
It might be the case that they are very commonly together and that someone self diagnosed themselves with depression
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scatmandingo
· 5 years ago
They can just self-treat by smiling more.
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alekazam
· 5 years ago
You can also avoid being poor by just being wealthy instead
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scatmandingo
· 5 years ago
Now that doesn’t make sense. You can’t just make money by doing something different in your life.
creativedragonbaby
· 5 years ago
Guess I’ll never do anything different, like being motivated, ever
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rassilon
· 5 years ago
And then there are those of us that have a genuine chemical imbalance in the brain caused by 'faulty wiring' as a direct result of a lifetime of trauma. Otherwise this is funny :)
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sunflowers
· 5 years ago
Yeah! I just love when people belittle my crippling, overwhelming, and excruciating mental illnesses as excuses or reasons not to do something. My favorite is when someone says "Oh, I'm soooo OCD. I color coordinate all my clothes/food/books etc." That's not OCD, that's just you liking to be organized. My mental illnesses are not your jokes. They're fucking torture and they make me want to kill myself to just end the pain.
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rassilon
· 5 years ago
I DO hear you @sunflowers, and I do agree a fair bit there. But I Have to be able to laugh despite the crippling need to do myself in. I've spent 20+ yrs training myself to ignore the impulse because logically (and that's fucking hard to recognize in the dark depths) I am at least sane enough to know it WILL pass. Even if I don't want it to. ESPECIALLY WHEN I DON'T WANT IT TO! It's fine to feel cranky at memes like this - to feel belittled and ridiculed. But life is how you decide to interpret it. If you can't find humour in your issues, then I would say you are doing yourself a disservice. Otherwise I hope you're doing okay at the moment buddy, big hugs whether you are or not OOO
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sunflowers
· 5 years ago
I laugh at myself literally everyday. But it's far different when it's people who suffer from the same things as me using humor coping mechanism than when neurotypical people are self diagnosing and trying to seem edgy or different. I think I'm allowed to be annoyed and disheartened when someone is completely warping a disease they don't even suffer from into an excuse for their crappy behavior. And yeah I m obviously not doing to well haha but thank you for caring
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deleted
· 5 years ago
I get why people make these but I kinda hate them. Mental illness is very complicated and doesn’t have the same kinds of easily identifiable symptoms as normal sickness does. My depression is absolutely caused by my chronic insomnia because since I’ve had it forever my brain developed kinda funky and now I have trouble producing serotonin. Of course it goes deeper than that, gender identity and bullying affected me a lot too. Mental illness usually comes hand in hand so a person with slight social anxiety (doesn’t even have to be enough to create a big problem in day to day life) could be sleeping worse because they worry, they might only turn to video games because they’re afraid of doing anything else, this leading to depression. Some people lie and say that they are depressed but the truth is that depression is more common than you think. So this mentally healthy person dismissing others because they don’t follow the absurd fantasy of depression media has shown kinda irks me.
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