[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.