I fucking hate when I open up to someone about my depression and they say ” well you don’t look depressed”. Depression is not measured by how much you cry or the number of cuts you have. Its a mental illness it affects everyone differently
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True, this is why so often when you hear about suicide the people close to them are like “we had no idea…he/she seemed fine”. And sadly that’s one reason people don’t open up, because they fear that kind of reaction.
Well, I can very well understand what you mean. Perhaps, It’s because “depression” and other kind of mental illnesses haven’t been publicly discussed before, like it has in recent years, with new studies and researches. I’ve found that older people have the retrograde thought that “OH, MENTAL ILLNESS!!! THAT’S SATAN’S STUFF, CRAZY PEOPLE SHOULD BE IN MENTAL INSTITUTIONS” and stuff like that. Sounds really “WTF”, but many people in my country think like that. It’s because some people are lacking EDUCATION about it.
yeah, i hate that shit too. or when people ask you what you’re depressed “about” – depression isn’t “about” anything, there isn’t a subject like that. depression just “is.”
My moms pretty bad with that. B4 I got old enough to move out and even now she said I have nothing to be depressed about. Like I’ve chosen to feel bad because its so much fun.