[Redway]

I seriously implore anyone who doesn’t believe in depression to visit an inpatient unit for the severely depressed.

“Suicide shouldn’t even be on your mind if you have money.”

When someone’s literally on death’s door and living in a world of nihilistic delusion it’s not really about how many numbers they have in their bank account. But people who don't know much about heavy depression don’t know how far the train goes inside the bottom-most pits of hell and torture. It really is a horrible set of illnesses. If you say otherwise it’s just because you don’t know what severe or even moderate types of depression look like. Simple.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

I seriously implore anyone who doesn’t believe in depression to visit an inpatient unit for the severely depressed.

“Suicide shouldn’t even be on your mind if you have money.”

When someone’s literally on death’s door and living in a world of nihilistic delusion it’s not really about how many numbers they have in their bank account. But people who don't know much about heavy depression don’t know how far the train goes inside the bottom-most pits of hell and torture. It really is a horrible set of illnesses. If you say otherwise it’s just because you don’t know what severe or even moderate types of depression look like. Simple.

Interesting you mentioned money and depression..

It reminds me of Chester Bennington ( Linkin Park) who had untold wealth , fabulously successful career and a beautiful young family …


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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Interesting you mentioned money and depression..

It reminds me of Chester Bennington ( Linkin Park) who had untold wealth , fabulously successful career and a beautiful young family …


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Chester Bennington will always be a sad loss to the world imo.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by 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?

Originally Posted by Redway

I seriously implore anyone who doesn’t believe in depression to visit an inpatient unit for the severely depressed.

“Suicide shouldn’t even be on your mind if you have money.”

When someone’s literally on death’s door and living in a world of nihilistic delusion it’s not really about how many numbers they have in their bank account. But people who don't know much about heavy depression don’t know how far the train goes inside the bottom-most pits of hell and torture. It really is a horrible set of illnesses. If you say otherwise it’s just because you don’t know what severe or even moderate types of depression look like. Simple.

Again. This re-bump is for the exercise-gurus on Instagram threads whose “controversial take” who think that exercise is a better cure for depression than medication. Let’s have it wall-to-wall about severer forms of depression and see how that approach works.

Also. This notion that talking about something a lot or having a lot of knowledge means that you must be somehow personally affected by it. That might be the case but it might-well not.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Interesting you mentioned money and depression..

It reminds me of Chester Bennington ( Linkin Park) who had untold wealth , fabulously successful career and a beautiful young family …


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Yeah. Mental illness really doesn’t care about how healthy your bank-balance is. If you’re not healthy in the mind, you’re suffering inherently and that’s the bottom and top of it. If anything there’s even something of a link between coming from a higher socioeconomic class and having bipolar disorder (or manic depression, let’s say, since we’re using the word depression quite explicitly here, innit).

One of the reasons I’m not a big fan of SSRI antidepressants (with few exceptions, like fluvoxamine and even paroxetine) is because they’re most-often associated with mild depression, the kind that GPs throw out like candy whenever someone so much as says they’re feeling a bit low for a purely natural, reactive reason (like a tough break-up). Tricyclics and MAOIs and stuff like venlafaxine may have more severe potential side-effects but they actually are A LOT more effective in doing whatever it is they do to alleviate depression, especially the more severe it is (alongside all the other conditions they’re used to treat, and most antidepressants are quite multi-purpose in that sense). Sertraline’s a very generic drug that lazy GPs like to prescribe without really thinking it through because they don’t know you and don’t truly care about you like that or anything besides their money as far as the job’s concerned but true, nuclear antidepressants are more equivalent to rocket-fuel if sertraline’s essentially glorified paracetamol for the mind. Mild antidepressants on their own barely make any difference if you’re beyond a certain point.

Likewise, if there are any antidepressants out there that can really get to the core of OCD, it’s stuff like clomipramine and fluvoxamine. It won’t be sertraline or citalopram, but those are the scrips that average GPs tend to rush for more than anything (besides Prozac). Again, another reason why I don’t really rate GPs and primary healthcare when it comes to things related to mental health at least. They might refer a person but it might take months or even years before a shrink can see them. Until then, you’re kind of at their mercy unless it’s obvious that you’re a knowledgeable patient who knows what they’re doing and knows more about their condition and drugs/specific therapies used to treat it than them (which isn’t hard up-against GPs, who don’t know much about anything in particular but only a little about a lot).

Sometimes people really have to stick up for themselves and be their own best advocate, because 7 times out of 10 your GP is not going to fight for you when it comes to things like this. They don’t know anything.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

I seriously implore anyone who doesn’t believe in depression to visit an inpatient unit for the severely depressed.

“Suicide shouldn’t even be on your mind if you have money.”

When someone’s literally on death’s door and living in a world of nihilistic delusion it’s not really about how many numbers they have in their bank account. But people who don't know much about heavy depression don’t know how far the train goes inside the bottom-most pits of hell and torture. It really is a horrible set of illnesses. If you say otherwise it’s just because you don’t know what severe or even moderate types of depression look like. Simple.

… ya. Again, the fact that so many people out there (including those who should definitely know better) don’t know just-how severe depression can be. That depression can be psychotic and often is shouldn’t be a drastically shocking revelation. It’s just a basic fact and one that’s been much-known in the right circles for thousands of years. There’s nothing new or ground-breaking abar it, still.