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The Butcher posted:You are allowed, and that's kind of a cool thing, to know you have the option. Eh, I often get empty encouragement sentences suggesting that I can simply make tomorrow a better day. No, YOU can. I can't. I've tried for years and things only got much, much worse. YOU can make your tomorrow a better day, Lazy Inspirational Person. I'm not you. ("you" in the royal sense. Not you you.)
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May 12, 2022 17:43
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Pet peeve: All of the people not suffering from actual clinical depression with their easy-mode wisdom about how to simply get over depression. In my experience, they also tend to get annoyed when the simple things that work for them in order to be happy don't just automatically work for a severely depressed person. With my family, I've received the advice of "just go outside and do something fun!" over and over and over and over for years. I explain that I want to but can't. Can't. CAN'T. They don't understand. To them, if they are bummed and bored, they just stand up and go for a drive and go shopping and hang out with friends and acquaintances. I try to tell them that just the IDEA of walking outside causes enough panic in me to cause me to vomit which means actually going out is absolutely out of the question. But they still insist "just go drive to a park and have a fun picnic!" ......... fuuuuuuuuck. If just reading those words causes me to puke from stress, I CANNOT GO DO IT. Can't! Not avoiding it because I don't want to. CAN'T. Trying to convey mental illness to those unwilling to try to understand is infuriating and pointless.
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May 13, 2022 21:06
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:do you really think goons are not familiar with depression Yes, I really think that many here are not familiar with actual, actual, actual depression. Actual depression. Not "I feel sad sometimes" bullshit. Actual clinical depression. Yes, I 100% believe way too many feel they understand because they felt sad once. That's cemented in place by the BS advice I've received from people here over the years. And about going to a "headshrinker" for therapy... yeah, again an out of touch clueless response. I stopped getting unemployment last September. I still can't find a job. I'm poor as hell. I have no health insurance because, duh, I can't afford it. Again, "just go do this one simple thing!" is nonsense, clueless advice from someone who has no clue.
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May 13, 2022 21:53
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