I'm pretty similar myself. Have had depression and tend to speak friends I know have experienced it and not tell the people who haven't and haven't had any experience of it. But in the end I guess if someone runs in the other direction without giving you a chance then really, are they the sort of people who you want to be around?
Yeah, I'd hate to say to someone who hadn't been depressed that they wouldn't understand it. But it only takes a couple of people who think they can "cure" depression by saying, "Well, why don't you just cheer up a bit?" as if we hadn't thought of that, to make me withdraw away from them.
I've had that! "Cheer up", " you'll be ok tomorrow", "stop feeling sorry for yourself". Like I want to feel sorry for myself! I'd rather be happy any day! If only it was that simple! The worst one was by my ex, "people who have depression need a good kick up the arse." joke was on him tho as when we split up and i wouldnt take him back he had a breakdown after years of mocking people with mental illness, some being family members. Luckily I don't have it too severely, and I'm off anti depressants at the mo and am doing ok without them. I'm always worried it will come back tho.
Mental illness makes me unsuitable to have as a friend?
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I'm pretty similar myself. Have had depression and tend to speak friends I know have experienced it and not tell the people who haven't and haven't had any experience of it. But in the end I guess if someone runs in the other direction without giving you a chance then really, are they the sort of people who you want to be around?
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Yeah, I'd hate to say to someone who hadn't been depressed that they wouldn't understand it. But it only takes a couple of people who think they can "cure" depression by saying, "Well, why don't you just cheer up a bit?" as if we hadn't thought of that, to make me withdraw away from them.
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I've had that! "Cheer up", " you'll be ok tomorrow", "stop feeling sorry for yourself". Like I want to feel sorry for myself! I'd rather be happy any day! If only it was that simple! The worst one was by my ex, "people who have depression need a good kick up the arse." joke was on him tho as when we split up and i wouldnt take him back he had a breakdown after years of mocking people with mental illness, some being family members. Luckily I don't have it too severely, and I'm off anti depressants at the mo and am doing ok without them. I'm always worried it will come back tho.