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A sad place for sad people to be sad.

Have fun!

This community is for people with depression. Memes and general discussion about depression are encouraged and welcome.

Bi-polar people are also allowed to post here but only sometimes.(joke)

This community is aimed at being inclusive for all people with depression and as such should be free of racism, homophobia, trans-phobia, sexism, patriarch and all other forms of hate-speech.

Trolls will be banned!

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Therapy is not for everyone, check out peer counseling instead: https://www.americanmentalwellness.org/intervention/peer-support/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As much as you can do and as much as you want to do are the same thing. I find this perspective to be very liberating.

No action can be performed without the motivation to initiate it.

Sometimes this relationship is very direct - I want to play video games, therefore I can play video games.

Sometimes it's a bit more obscured. I don't want to fold my laundry, but I do want to be able to find my clothes in my dresser. My desire to find my clothes is greater than my distaste for laundry, therefore, I can fold my laundry.

The language around saying you can't do something is very self-defeating. If I say I can't take care of myself it implies a certain amount of permanency. If I say I don't want to take care of myself, that's temporary and is open to change when I'm feeling better.

More to the point of this meme, thinking that people can help you more than they want to help you is dangerous thinking. The burden of existence sucks, but our fellow humans don't really owe us anything just for existing. They can't help you if they don't want to help you, just like you can't help yourself if you don't want to help yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Very well said.

I would just like to add that there have been many, many times in my life when I wanted to help, but I didn't know how, or didn't have the means. And sometimes life just sucks, and there isn't anything that can really help.

I hope that, in those times, the people I loved didn't think I didn't help simply because I didn't want to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I want to play video games, therefore I can play video games.

That must be nice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s truly special people who actually do everything they can to help you get better, everyone else just assumes that you’re dealing with something personal and that you’ll sort it out yourself. Part of it is boundaries, like nobody really knows what another person is going through or what the root cause of their depression is, and you have to get really real with a person to find that out. Most of the time it’s your own personal labyrinth that you have to find your way out of.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I can certainly see how that would be enigmatic. In my instance I have tried to communicate this but doing so further would feel like begging and annoying in general: which I suppose my existence feels to me at a base level.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If believing it make you a tiny bit more motivated...

All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Thank you Cave Johnson.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish I had enough lemons to do anything with.