Depression is a meme for 90% of people who claim they have it. It IS a real mental illness, just horribly misattributed.
You know who can have legitimate depression? Someone who lost their whole family in an accident. A war veteran who witnessed incredible amounts of brutality watching his friends die and feels displaced from his place in the world coming home. A person going to prison for a crime they didn't commit, and everyone they were close to think they did it and hate them for it. Somebody with genuinely physically and emotionally abusive parents who gets kicked out of the house at age 14 and has to fend for themselves. A person who gets diagnosed with a freak rare disease that will slowly cripple their body within six months.
You know who doesn't have real depression? Some late-teens or early 20's guy who doesn't put effort into anything and wonders why his life isn't going anywhere. Some teenage girl whose boyfriend broke up with her and she sees her friends getting way more likes than her on Instagram. People who see some ideal Chad fantasy life and curse their own existence because they aren't living it, and give up all motivation because they're "missing out". People who blame video games and being unpopular in middle school for never getting anywhere, claiming it was their only shot at learning to be social, despite countless normal people being able to make it regardless of being a nobody in their teenage drama-ridden social circle.
>Depression is a meme for 90% of people who claim they have it I'm unsure about that but still consider the idea >people who went through horrible shit have depression In order to be diagnosed, the sadness 'episode' must not be attributed to a particular event
I'm open to the idea that a lot of people could fix their 'depression' by taking responsability and a meaninful direction in life and decent social relations, tho
Easton Powell
Citation needed. Lay off the self help books loser
Jack Long
bump for depression but keep in mind people that were raised fucked eg. single mother that creates a beta. One event is just one event lmao
Michael Reyes
B a d. G e n e s real quote from therapist
Jackson Moore
No one is allowed to be sad ever because you aren't a quadruple amputee with no eyes who's chained in a basement and gets gangeraped by horses
I wrote my first suicide letter at age 6. I think I have depression
>Inb4 shame you didn't follow through with it
Jack Sanchez
>you are not allowed to feel bad because someone out there feels worse
>depression is just bad events happening to you, it's not about brain composition
also where did you get your 90% statistic from? please give me the source
Caleb Richardson
Sadness is a spectrum. We can debate if calling it depression, it really depends about the duration and how it affects your everyday life. I think that at least everyone has been depressed at least once in its life.
You literally just described situational vs clinical depression retard
Dylan Hernandez
>You know who can have legitimate depression? >Someone who lost their whole family in an accident. >A war veteran who witnessed incredible amounts of brutality watching his friends die and feels displaced from his place in the world coming home. >A person going to prison for a crime they didn't commit, and everyone they were close to think they did it and hate them for it. >Somebody with genuinely physically and emotionally abusive parents who gets kicked out of the house at age 14 and has to fend for themselves. >A person who gets diagnosed with a freak rare disease that will slowly cripple their body within six months. That's PTSD you moron
Nolan Lewis
But I've tested positive for the chemical imbalance found in depression.
Grayson Kelly
you can be depressed over stupid fucking reasons dude, it doesn't mean it's not depression.
Owen Turner
You're not describing depression you're describing grief and anguish
Depression is characterized by a lack of feeling, not the whole field of negative emotion. You clearly know nothing about it so I'm not sure why you're making posts about it
Oliver Lopez
>situational that's called being sad, retardo. not op btw
thats some cold shit to say while theyre rapin, damn
Eli Evans
but is that the chicken or the egg?
John Carter
Tell more, what happened to you?
Andrew Diaz
Completely agree OP. Been through very intense abuse for most my life and it gave me not only major depressive disorder but schizotypal personality disorder too. feels good.
