One of the things that piss me off the most is when people do drastic things for attention.
I hate when people say they have depression and that they’re depressed when they really mean sad. Like depression is a mental illness that you would have to be diagnosed with. You can’t go around telling people that you’re depressed and expect sympathy. I get that being sad can eventually turn into depression. You cannot just have it from one day to the next. If you were actually depressed, you wouldn’t tell anyone or make it public, because you know thay everyone will end up treating you differently. Like you’re broken. Like why would you want to fake a mental illness when you know that there is nothing wrong with you. When you know that there are so many people struggling with it?
You don’t cut yourself and then show all your friends the next day, all happy and joy and expect them not to treat you differently. People like that are why depressed and suicidal people get treated like a joke some times. There is nothing wrong with you. So stop trying to draw attention to yourself.
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I think lots of it have to do with the fact that many people don’t even know the difference between being sad and being depressed. It’s not like society gives much publicity to how mental disorders affect people. Unless it’s a physical tangible disease or a series or suicides you don’t hear much about it on the news or anywhere at all, so i guess in a way it’s understandable.
That being said yup, many people do it for attention, but usually it goes into real depression or they break out of it when they realize just what you said: everyone will end up treating you differently (and not always in a good way). I still get why it bothers you tho, and i kinda relate.
I agree…. I think it might be similar to someone saying that they want to die when they are sick with the flu or perhaps they just broke up with a bf/gf… they aren’t necessarily serious and have no idea what ACTUALLY wanting to die looks or feels like. Similarly so, they don’t know what it is like to be clinically depressed.
I don’t like it either when people make claims that are false. Been there… long story.
If someone does that than there mentally ill in a different way. They may suffer from Historonic Personality Disorder