[Redway]

People calling depression “fake news”. You don’t understand depression (real, serious depression), you don’t understand mental illness and you’re exposing your ignorance. Everyone don’t gotta be a glorifier of the suited hustle-and-bustle world and fundamentally struggle with empathy. The world needs shrinks, counsellors and empathetic people more than it needs more runners-up for Wall Street and a career that’s more interesting on LinkedIn paper than in reality. And serious depression is almost worse than cancer.

Again, it all comes down to this issue of people lightening and trivialising the word “depression” and thinking it’s a pedestal for people with ‘fake’ issues and minor day-to-day anxieties of life to jump on for sympathy or attention on social media. Severe depression is a completely different kettle of fish and one of the most horrible illnesses someone can have. Often psychotic. In any case way beyond just needing to hit the gym more and remember that other people have it worse than them. You can find that out for yourself if you visit an ECT ward or generally just come close-up to someone suffering with severe depression. Even mild depression, the next step from that is often suicide or at least heart-attack. And that ain’t no joke.
So people really need to stop saying they have “depression and anxiety” or lumping them together too much. It lightens the true meaning of depression, undermines its potential severity and … ya. Plus there are plenty of disorders chilling (or not chilling) in the neighbourhood of “anxiety” so if you’re trying to go anywhere with that, be more specific. Is it generalised anxiety, social anxiety, agoraphobia or regular panic attacks?