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I have depression. A lot of people do. Last year I lost one of my best friends to it. Here’s a thread that I made with him and my own issues in mind:
Depression is lonely.
It doesn’t matter how many people surround you or say they love you. You constantly feel alone and feel you deserve to be.
It doesn’t matter how many people surround you or say they love you. You constantly feel alone and feel you deserve to be.
Depression is alienating.
No matter how helpful others can be you just can’t bring yourself to accept their love, support, and kindness. It makes no sense but all you can do is push.
No matter how helpful others can be you just can’t bring yourself to accept their love, support, and kindness. It makes no sense but all you can do is push.
Depression is unpopular.
Everyone wants to be happy. No one wants to be around the sad person bringing down the mood.
Everyone wants to be happy. No one wants to be around the sad person bringing down the mood.
Depression is unattractive
It’s the opposite of confidence and strength. No one likes that. This snowballs into a constant “No one likes me” mentality because you lose that confidence which, let’s be honest, makes you appear unattractive and thus perpetuating that image.
It’s the opposite of confidence and strength. No one likes that. This snowballs into a constant “No one likes me” mentality because you lose that confidence which, let’s be honest, makes you appear unattractive and thus perpetuating that image.
Depression is REALLY unattractive
It destroys relationships and prevents new ones from forming. I could write a whole thread about this alone. Love IS stronger. God I hope it is.
It destroys relationships and prevents new ones from forming. I could write a whole thread about this alone. Love IS stronger. God I hope it is.
This is the point where I really don’t want to tweet this. I started this on the one year mark of his death and couldn’t finish it like a complete failure because, well, depression.
Depression is spontaneous
When you have every reason to be happy and you just can’t and you have to fight the “Well nothing must be good enough for you, you selfish brat” image.
When you have every reason to be happy and you just can’t and you have to fight the “Well nothing must be good enough for you, you selfish brat” image.
Depression is a stigma
“You’d get help but you just want attention”
“You’re just lazy”
“Suicide is selfish”
“It’s not THAT hard”
“You only care about yourself and not how it affects others close to you and that’s why you don’t get help”
It’s such a wonder why we wear masks.
“You’d get help but you just want attention”
“You’re just lazy”
“Suicide is selfish”
“It’s not THAT hard”
“You only care about yourself and not how it affects others close to you and that’s why you don’t get help”
It’s such a wonder why we wear masks.
Depression is a constant mask
This is tiring. You have to constantly keep up this persona because no one will like you if you don’t. And deep down inside you just don’t want everyone to hate you.
This is tiring. You have to constantly keep up this persona because no one will like you if you don’t. And deep down inside you just don’t want everyone to hate you.
Depression is a disease
NOT lack of will.
NOT lack of will.
Depression kills motivation
That feeling when you know exactly what you need to do to get out of your downward spiral but you just spent three days in your bed crying because it doesn’t matter you’re gonna fail everything and just get up it’s not that hard, right?
That feeling when you know exactly what you need to do to get out of your downward spiral but you just spent three days in your bed crying because it doesn’t matter you’re gonna fail everything and just get up it’s not that hard, right?
Depression hates help
There are millions of easy to access resources: therapy, suicide assistance lines and friends but you don’t want to bother them, or be “that guy/girl”. You feel like a sad virus and without you at least the ones you care about don’t have to suffer too
There are millions of easy to access resources: therapy, suicide assistance lines and friends but you don’t want to bother them, or be “that guy/girl”. You feel like a sad virus and without you at least the ones you care about don’t have to suffer too
Depression is frustrating
People are just so tired of your shit.
“Surprise, he deactivated again”
“Must be that time of the month”
Of course we want to hide.
People are just so tired of your shit.
“Surprise, he deactivated again”
“Must be that time of the month”
Of course we want to hide.
Depression hates medication
SSRIs and other meds are HORRIBLE. You don’t feel yourself; you feel drugged. They either make you a zombie, make it WORSE, put you on a rollercoaster, or you turn into a fake with no ability to empathize with anyone sad.
SSRIs and other meds are HORRIBLE. You don’t feel yourself; you feel drugged. They either make you a zombie, make it WORSE, put you on a rollercoaster, or you turn into a fake with no ability to empathize with anyone sad.
Depression prevents happiness
“Is this good thing real? Does she/he really like me? No of course not. I suck. I don’t deserve this new job; I’m a fraud.”
“Is this good thing real? Does she/he really like me? No of course not. I suck. I don’t deserve this new job; I’m a fraud.”
Depression hates therapy
It’s hard enough to open up to a close friend let alone a complete stranger. Motivation to actually do it aside, keeping up with it is near impossible. The tasks therapists assign to us are immensely difficult to perform no matter how simple they seem.
It’s hard enough to open up to a close friend let alone a complete stranger. Motivation to actually do it aside, keeping up with it is near impossible. The tasks therapists assign to us are immensely difficult to perform no matter how simple they seem.
Depression isn’t a lack of coping skills or treatment
It isn’t an easy fix. It doesn’t just magically vanish if you stop drinking, get a new hobby/gf/bf, or start meds. And even if you find the best meds and are able to find the ability to do therapy it’s never truly gone.
It isn’t an easy fix. It doesn’t just magically vanish if you stop drinking, get a new hobby/gf/bf, or start meds. And even if you find the best meds and are able to find the ability to do therapy it’s never truly gone.
Depression amplifies
Bad stuff becomes catastrophic to the level of nonfunctional. Tiny things are the end of the world. This isn’t dramatic; it’s our reality.
“I miss her/him”
“I’m so lonely”
“I suck at life”
x1,000
Did I mention how hard it is to manage par?
Bad stuff becomes catastrophic to the level of nonfunctional. Tiny things are the end of the world. This isn’t dramatic; it’s our reality.
“I miss her/him”
“I’m so lonely”
“I suck at life”
x1,000
Did I mention how hard it is to manage par?
Depression is so good at masks
Because we live it. We are the extroverts sometimes. We are the loudest and appear the happiest. We are the Robin Williams of comedy, the public speakers, and the greatest artists in addition to the introverts and the reclusive.
Because we live it. We are the extroverts sometimes. We are the loudest and appear the happiest. We are the Robin Williams of comedy, the public speakers, and the greatest artists in addition to the introverts and the reclusive.
Depression cries for help
Speaking of celebrities was it really a shock from Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, or Chester Bennington? Listen to their songs. Our cries for help are there but are just labeled as attention-seeking, or angst-ridden.
Speaking of celebrities was it really a shock from Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, or Chester Bennington? Listen to their songs. Our cries for help are there but are just labeled as attention-seeking, or angst-ridden.
Depression is a hole
Where you’re so deep that every mode of assistance feels like a ladder that’s too short to help you out and you just look up at those ladders and want to say “thanks for trying but I can see how nothing is going to really help so I’m just gonna sit here”.
Where you’re so deep that every mode of assistance feels like a ladder that’s too short to help you out and you just look up at those ladders and want to say “thanks for trying but I can see how nothing is going to really help so I’m just gonna sit here”.
Depression wants everyone to go away
But don’t. Please.
But don’t. Please.
I want to share this web comic series because it is one of the best resources I’ve found to explain and therefore help others with depression: https://depdavecomics.com/
I believe this is his twitter: @depdavecomics
