Things, that mostly only REALLY depressed people will understand and why they are trapped in depression (detailed) (Page 2)
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Depressed people see things in life that regular happy folk will never see or understand. This makes the life of a depressed person a very lonely experience.
Very precise!!! Thank you for saying this.
Unpopular opinion: you are 100% responsible for yourself. Control your emotions or they will control you.
Wallowing in your victimhood is not going to get you anywhere. Toughen up, plenty of people have persevered thorough unspeakable horrors that you can't even imagine, while you are complaining about a first world problem.
He isn't Wallowing in his victim-hood, and he isn’t complaining ether. He is trying to help those who don't understand how it feels to be depressed. That it isn't something one can shake off nor is it necessarily a short lived problem, it can be a life time struggle. Sometimes it hurts physically as well as emotionally to make the choice to continue for another day. The Fact that he is still alive and willing to open himself up to complete strangers (some who are imbecilic asses that can’t comprehend what they read if they bothered to read it all) shows how truly tough he is.
"Unpopular opinion: you are 100% responsible for yourself. Control your emotions or they will control you." He is accepting 100% responsible for himself. Controlling your emotions doesn’t mean they magical disappear it means you continue in spite of them.
@BethanyK86 Fair enough, but I can't help but get the feeling that he needs to mentally break through his depression. When I was depressed, empathy didn't help. I needed to be taught that nobody would save me, that I have to fight for my life and *TRULY* want to live as I see fit.
He needs to not just survive in despair, that's not living! He needs inner strength, maybe even hatred, to get through his mental barriers and take control of himself.
"Oh you have cancer? Tough luck, toughen up and control your health and you'll be fine!"
Fuck off, you can't just "toughen up" and "control your emotions" with depression, it's a fucking ilness, not a short feeling of sadness.
@BethanyK86 thank you! I appreciate that!
@JesseTheMan it's just as i explained in my article 😀😀😀 hahaha.
That falls into the category of "stop being depressed" and putting out a fire by yelling at it. All the willpower won't help if there isn't material to put out a fire.
News flash: we are in control of our bodies as well. You don't need any treatment to cure cancer as well, right?
@CubsterShura Comparing depression to cancer.
Top kek.
So you think it can't be as severe as cancer?
But hey, it's only in families with people like you that depressed people end up committing suicide 🤷
@CubsterShura The world is shit, life sucks and then you die. Only the strong can handle that reality and persevere in spite of their inevitable oblivion in the complete and utter futility that is life.
A lot of people living in third world countries would literally kill to have the life that these crybaby, depressed weaklings have. People have gone through so much worse than clinical depression but these days it is fashionable to be depressed, to be weak and cry for help.
Whatever happened to admiring iron wills and being grateful for what you have? Why are people so open and proud of their weakness?
I will never have empathy for people who are depressed and don't do absolutely everything in their power to overcome it. As far as I'm concerned, their suicide is just natural selection at work. Good riddance.
Yep, no wonder suicidal people don't get the help that they need. Natural selection? Fuck that shit. What natural selection? I love how humans are constantly going against nature but being natural selection up to cover their ignorance and apathy.
@CubsterShura You haven't been alive long enough to see how too much empathy warps society. America's First Amendment is actually quite unique in the first world.. you cannot even be incorrect about history and state that the Holocaust had not happened in a lot of Europe.. it's a crime to do so. Why? Feelings.. offense.. too much empathy, etc. The marketplace of ideas should always be open to even the most wrong ideas.
Too much empathy will also produce people who get depressed over not be able to find a girlfriend like the poster and then instead of finding practical solutions to get better they will justify alcoholism and surrender their will to their feelings. You overly compassionate people are enabling him.. tough love is the answer here. People have to learn to sink or swim, because you won't be able to provide them what's a flotation device every time they start drowning.
Like I said, if the depressed person is doing absolutely everything in their power to properly manage their condition, then I will have sympathy for them.
@CubsterShura Also, it is humanity working as a group logically that enables us to survive natural selection so well. We must do our best to check our primal, emotional irrationalities. Some level of eugenics through breeding programs will eventually have to become a reality.
The best thing you can do is accept it, live with it, watch it from another prospective. The problem nowday is that we are constantly told that we have to be happy, happiness, joy, smile, and we forgot that we can enjoy melancholy, we can enjoy one of those sad rainy days. We just have to find a different prospective.
I'd say you just about nailed it.
It seems like when you're in that good spot, the rollercoaster of life is going to keep going up but then takes the drastic drop.
You were spot on. Depression is a monster no one deserves to be overcome by.
A lot of this is why I've never told a single person about it. Just gonna continue keeping it to myself
Good fella! You and I are doing the same.
I'm going through this now and don't want to I just want to go back when I was happy in life but now I just don't care about anything anymore.
Feeling hopeless is so hard!
I understand what missing your regular life feels like.
You're an amazing person, even if you don't feel like it. 😉
I always say... seek treatment and a friend who will support you. The right treatment plan for you is unique, just like you 😊
I’m so sorry... you don’t deserve this at all. If you ever need to talk about it, I’m always around.
I can totally relate. I'd like to add that just because I'm depressed, doesn't make me suicidal or have suicidal thoughts. I hate it when people assume that I'm suicidal just because I have depression.
I am depressed because I am ugly and lonely also I am depressed because I am not well educated or intelligent. Also I hate living alone and being either invisible to the oppesite sex or the subject of being ridiculed for my ugliness.
I want to add that the weariness of the soul is another thing. just the feeling of being so done with life.
I mean reading this made me depressed so I should’ve avoided it 😵
As I myself suffer from depression, I can
certainly relate.
Had this for yesrs, destroyed my life, then wife left me for me for same guy she had affair with and BOOM, everything got better, turns out she was the cause. Everyday she leaves, is a better days brighter day for me.
This is so very true! thanks for sharing - coming from someone who has had depression
You are most welcome 🤗🤗🤗
This article you made was so true, it made me cry. I believe the whole thing.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I see blood on my hands
the same as you do
Changing the "mask" every
I dont know what else can i say
Walking down the street
thinking "its all the same"
But its just "another" day
The worst thing someone with a mental illness can do is try to get "treatment" it's a trap. Only people in the real world can help you, mental health workers are the most apathetic, sadistic psychopaths in the entire universe.
What people with depression need is EMPATHY, not ADVICE
I have to say one more thing... Please Stop Judging People With Depression! It's not pretend, it's real. Until you experience it for yourself, you will never understand.
Drink and watch some really funny movies. Make more friends. 🍻
... because drinking solves everything 🤨
Yes it does ease the tension in most of the people, otherwise they would turn psycho.
Depression is lack of action, even if that action is small.