This isn’t directed towards anyone. It’s an overall statement.
I’m not Tryna be rude or offend anyone here. But statements that people have made about suicide, depression & cutting are starting to piss me off. I get it, there are people out there who have it ten times worse then I do. I get it that there’s starving kids in third world countries. People wishing and dreaming of a life like ours. To have food on the table, clothes, clean water & other necessary things to survive. But DARE any of you say that we should not be depressed. Or think about suicide or cut ourselves cause its “selfish”. Depression is a serious mental illness. People battle it everyday! And still manage to put up a fake smile and say everything is fine.. Even when their wrist & thighs are full of cuts. And they’re losing a battle they feel they cannot win. So until you understand. Shut the fuck up. Okay? I hate ignorant asses like you people that make that type of statement.
I just don’t understand how you can sit there and say that we have NO right to do that to our bodies.. Okay, I understand that self-harming, starving/purging isn’t exactly an ideal thing to do our  bodies. Nor is it healthy. BUT to pretty much lecture me or anyone else for doing this. To make us feel worse then we do now..
This is the EXACT reason I don’t open up to anyone about my feelings. Ever. I am SO sick of the people telling me to “get over myself”.. That’s probably one of the worse things you can say to a suicidal/depressed person. Get over it. What the FUCK would you be able to tell what battles someone is fighting? How can you tell what is going through someone’s mind? You don’t. So shove that “someone has it worse then you” up your ass. Cause the person that has it worse then you.. could be standing right in front of you. & you wouldn’t even know.
Okay. Rant over.
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I don’t think that we on this site typically tell people to simply ‘get over themselves.’ 😛
YES!
Those children in the third world, they are happier than us, believe me.
But you can’t weight it, everyone has their own battle.
Good rant! I had a friend tell me I.should volunteer at a soup kitchen, there I could see people worse off than me. I also got.the usual tired cliches from this person such as “get over it”,”things will get better”,”it’s darkest before the dawn”. Bleh. I no longer associate with this person or any other that does not truly understand my issues.
thats why i never open up on the subject of depression and suicide with other people. its always the same, the discussions, the reactions..
No one wishes for a life like mine. But without understanding it, only seeing it superficially from outside, they might mistake it for being “better” than their current one. But a few steps in my shoes would have most people barefoot, and throwing shoes… or even refusing to take even one more step.
Man I can’t recall the number of times I’ve heard “someone has it worse then you”….. like sometimes I wonder if the people saying that shit actually hear the bullshit coming out their mouth….like man….WTF! its like telling an animal to be happy that it’s less abused than another animal!….does that even make the slightest bit of sense? not at all yet people constantly hurl that statement around as if it has merit…….My mom sometimes like to say to me “think of the children that are in the terminal section of hospitals…they don’t even get to grow up and live life and you do and you should be grateful”..I’d LOVE to trade places with a terminally ill child…. I’d do it in a heartbeat!!…..hell they want to live life? I say let them trade and see how they like it….what people fail to realize IMO is that these children get to be children for a brief amount of time then generally die peacefully in a hospital….WTF man to me that’s a sweet fucking deal! man I wish I was had a terminal disease as a child! People don’t seem to realize we die ANYWAYS….the thing about these children is that they die a bit early…..is that such a bad thing? I mean they get to die with the rose tinted glasses on….I bet if they got to trade with a homeless guy in his 30s or 40s they’d quickly go back to their terminal beds as children….. Sometimes I want to say to my mother “those terminal kids are fucking lucky IMO” but that would probably give away my suicidal tendencies so I just shut up and take it
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Worded far better than I ever could. Jessi – sending you a thousand platonic hugs. Best wishes to you and thanks for stating what you did.
@OP Well said.
Thank you. When someone tells me to “snap out of it” I want to slap them in the face. If I could fucking snap out of it, I fucking WOULD. :/ Meh. I feel the same way. I KNOW I sound like a broken record of “woe is me” to everyone around me. And if I could stop, I would. I have driven people away because of my depression. But I can’t stop. I can’t fix it. Drugs don’t help. Hell, they’ve made it WORSE. Therapy doesn’t help. Nothing helps. I am simply sad. All the time. Hating life.