memes

"opens up about childhood trauma that came an inch short of being locked in a closet for 20 years or sold into sexual slavery.'

'i'm sure your parents tried their best.'

I opened up to someone a week ago and they told me to try therapy and maybe get medicated. What an asshole.

That's what the button is for.

But to be fair. Regular exercise and hydration can help with mild symptoms of depression. Clinical depression makes it difficult to even attempt these things, which is why we all should have access to effective mental healthcare

have you tried just not being depressed?

Yoga legit really great a managing stress and getting your mind off tense subjects.

Dehydration genuinely fucks over your ability to regulate your mood and concentrate on tasks at hand.

Like, I know you want to be mad at the "Easy Answers" crowd. But also, sometimes there are things that consistently improve your life. And people know it. And you can just do them and feel better.

A bit like asking someone who is in pain "Have you tried ibuprofen?" And then they're angry at you until they take it. Then the pain subsides. And sometimes they even say "Thank you".

As a person who finally managed their anxiety after years of therapy and like 10 medications the best thing for me has been yoga and Mary Jane. I hate that my therapist was right about the yoga.

at least op has

1. someone to talk to
2. someone that probably actually listened
3. and that someone at least tried to help

when i try to reach out, if i even find someone that listens..well. it doen't end well or they just stay silent and leave basically, like never to contact me again unless they need something (which i don't indulge anymore, thus i realized i was alone for a long time before i realized)

Let me tell you how depressed I am instead, and how much more justified my depression is, and how your situation is bullshit by comparison.

That'll cheer you up. Probably.

Have you tried heavy drinking?

If you just want someone to listen to you and be supportive you should say so. A lot of people, especially autistic people, jump to trying to find a solution to fix it. Communicate better, say you just need a compassionate listener and both parties will be better off.

If you're struggling with depression, you need to see a doctor. To go with the metaphor in the meme, the average person isn't trained to save a drowning person, who can also end up drowning anyone who tries to save them. Lifeguards are trained to save drowning people.

"Have you tried not being depressed?"

I'm fully aware of the irony of downplaying how complicated emotions can be ITT, but after all my years depressed or whatever mixture of things I am, I think the simpler concepts have done me the most good overall really.

I came across these 5 words a couple years ago, and it struck me as the exact advice I needed for a long time.

Don't believe everything you think.

That actually sounds kinda decent response. The person giving advice is just trying their best, we aren't all therapist

Have you tried 10g of powerful psychedelics?

Or my parents' go to, "You gotta stop thinking about those kinds of things, try being more positive". What the actual fuck?

There’s also the “Oh yeah, same situation” crowd. People who feel the same way, who agree about the state of the world, and also struggle to get by.

Which in itself, isn’t a bad way to respond - it’s honest, after all. However, it makes the idea of “reaching out for help” worse than pointless - not only won’t I get any help, but I’ll get more validation that I was right to feel hopeless in the first place.

The sad truth in this world is that, apart from your close friends, your partners and your parents (if you're lucky), nobody cares too much about you in general. This can be devastating, but it can also be liberating.

Sign up for my 1500 per year self mastery courses. I'll probably try to turn it into all about sex and me fucking you in the end anyway. So in the end you still lose 🫠🫠🫠 btw did I mention I was priest from Atlantis 🥒💦

At a bare minimum i always appreciate an attempt to help, even if their ideas aren't actually helpful