People who are chronically depressed tend to stay chronically depressed till we die. We may have periods where it isn’t “so” bad, but it always comes back. It never goes away, and we are never “cured.” It’s like that song, “hello darkness, my old friend…”
Everyone just says to go:
1- call a suicide hotline
2- talk to a therapist
People are always quick to say, there’s all these help out there, just make that call, talk to someone, etc. But I’ve done all that and NONE of it helped me. Occasionally it helps to vent sometimes (if it’s due to something that angered me), but otherwise, it feels so empty. Heck, it feels more empty than stuffing one’s face with food, bc at least you feel “good” for a tiny moment as you’re eating said junk food.
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Makes you wonder- is it us that is faulty, or is society sick, and depression/SH/loneliness/ despair, etc our response to this sick and broken society? Or I suppose, both.
“Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of […]
How does one not feel so alone, so depressed and suicidal when you have no one in your life? When you feel like no one loves you? When you have no one who truly cares about you?
I mean REAL friendships, REAL connections.
No go for a walk or go journal type of stuff. That’s for when one is sad.
Is there ANYTHING that can realistically pull us out of a DEEP DEEP DEEP Depression? I’m at a point where I’m in despair- I’ve lost hope that “things will be better.” When you’ve waited years and decades, and those words haven’t turned true, and things only have gotten worse, not better. And once you’re middle-aged or old, realistically, what “hope” is there left that “things will be better”? The older you are, the less likely it’s going to happen before you eventually kick the […]
I am hopelessly depressed
People saying “unaliving” (ex- he tried unaliving himself) instead of “he tried killing himself” or “he tried to commit suicide.”
Anyone else find it super annoying that on some sites, we can’t even say “suicide” or “killing” or “died”? Not just the use of the word “unaliving” but other new made-up words in lieu of suicide words. I mean, changing the word isn’t going to do a goddamn thing about depression and suicide. If people ACTUALLY wanted to help depressed people, they would do it. Simply using different words doesn’t do anything, and it doesn’t change anything.
A very brief list of celebs with depression.
There’s MANY MANY more.
Katy Perry
Jon Hamm
Lady Gaga
Michael Phelps
Kristen Bell
Bruce Springsteen
Gwyneth Paltrow
Ashley Judd
Naomi Judd
Ryan Phillippe
J.K. Rowling
Lili Reinhart
Miley Cyrus
Jared Padalecki
Sarah Silverman
Cara Delevingne
Jon Hamm
Owen Wilson
Demi Lovato
Wayne Brady
Kerry Washington
Sheryl Crow
Neal Brennan
https://pagesix.com/article/celebrity-deaths-2022/
Holy cow, there’s A LOT of celebrity deaths just in 2022 alone.
Many of them don’t list a cause of death. Only three explicitly is listed as suicide. Many of the young ones we can probably assume was suicide/drugs/etc.
I can’t believe I never heard of her before.
She is the the actual singer of Never Enough from The Greatest Showman
Loren Allred- You Say
https://www.yourtango.com/2012128420/heartbreak-real-says-new-research
Whelps, it’s real folks. We can actually die from heartbreak.
“In 2018, researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that a person’s risk of suffering from a heart attack increases by 21 times in the first 24 hours after losing a loved one.”
And if we can die from heartbreak, I’m sure we can die from loneliness, depression and despair too.
But sadly for depression, it is SLOWLY killing us, slow and torturous, rather than the instant peaceful death many of us wish for.
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from author of this video…
“We live in a world plagued with toxic optimism where people are pressured into taking the position that “life is good”. Those who claim otherwise are labeled “negative”, “defective”, or “mentally ill”. We are programmed to feel ashamed for even entertaining the idea that life may not be worth living.
This is why I came up with the “honk experiment”. A part of TRTNLE is to create an environment where people can speak honestly about their distaste for life without judgment… even if it is communicated by a simple car horn.”
Here is the video:
What do you guys think?
Leona Lewis- Run
so hauntingly beautiful…and so sad
the lyrics hits deep
If only I had that someone who care that much for me…
1- Why is everyone here depressed? What is your root issue?
2- What things would actually help to make you less depressed?
taking care of oneself is a pain too, always having to eat, getting food, etc.
living requires maintenance. every day things exhaust me, grocery shopping, brushing teeth, showering, etc. i have health issues so even the most simplest of things become a chore. not just a chore, like climbing a mountain every day. it’s exhausting.
https://www.insider.com/harvard-dr-robert-waldinger-how-to-strengthen-any-relationship-2023-1?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=
And what happens when you have NOBODY, not even ONE close relationship?
This article says relationships are what makes ppl happy. Yes, that is common sense. But depressed ppl generally have problems MAKING friends to begin with. Are ppl depressed BC they can’t make deep connections with others, or BC they are depressed they can’t make connections with others? It’s a chicken and egg scenario.
It’s a vicious cycle- those of us who are depressed are generally very lonely, but bc we are depressed, ppl don’t want to be near us, so we become lonely…which makes us more depressed….
https://www.google.com/search?q=happiest+person+in+the+world&oq=happiest+per&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l2j46i512j0i512l6.2902j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8