I won’t get into semantics,just wasted more time on the hotline…the volunteer acted appalled that I suggested long term depression was the mental equivalent to end stage cancer…anyone else agree? No thetes no biological basis for suffering but its just as poisonous and just as fatal….
Each day I get closer,and a little more courage. thankfully i found two new pro suicide forums to vent a little more explicitly lol,not that this hasn’t been fun,too.
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Personally I think it’s easier to have a physical disease than depression. People would actually care and feel for you then, but if you have depression it’s always “just snap out of it.” You get treated like crap from people because people just don’t understand just how debilitating it is and how we can’t just “snap out of it.” It’s so much harder because people blame us for having depression, while cancer is seen as a “real” ailment.
wat came first? cancer or depression? my dpression came first now i have COPD/emphesema, so the depression has doubled….ive been a caregiver for 20yrs..most of the time ‘things’ go hand n hand, a ‘trickle’ down effect……
bah~ neither a physical disease nor depression are easy to handle, u r right about how ‘people’ see things, we are individuals~~~~~