being depressed then vs. now

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[ScarletJohansson-rgjr]

Honestly our government has no idea how people are suffering these days. I much feel sorry for the disabled people who don’t get the help they deserve

[jeffbarnen-rn]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against Suicidal, depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[kayumbaemmanuel]

The emotional rollercoaster was exhausting. One minute I was soaring, the next spiraling into a black hole of self-doubt and rage. My relationships suffered, my work was a mess. Then I started microdosing. The emotional swings weren't completely gone, but they were less frequent, less intense. I could think more clearly, make better decisions, and connect with others in a more authentic way. For the first time in a long time, I felt a sense of stability, a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, I could live a life less defined by chaos.

[carloszestyboy]

I’ll give modern times at least this: it’s being addressed a lot more and taken more seriously. When my mom (bipolar with severe PTSD from an extremely abusive childhood) was growing up in the late 60s, no body believed in mental illnesses like depression. They would tell you that it’s not real and it’s your fault if it is.

[SOUPLOVER]

“Why don’t you think about how i feel for once? It’s always about YOU!” -my mom after i went through life-altering trauma that left me with diagnosed PTSD and talked to her about it

[dr.swagington]

"I'm depressed."
"Sounds like we don't understand depression."
"That doesn't help. me"
" Well shit, I tried, man."
"What type of try was that?" He shrugs it off and then walks.

[LittleDevilAkuma]

I thought 2025 will be
"I'm depressed."
"Same."

[bluejay]

As someone with deep mental health issues that has been reminded by his dad how expensive the bills are from recently being in a psych ward, this video goes so hard.

[dichromaticsphinx]

The problem is that to deal with issues like these, to actually have a positive consequence, you need to have a shred of empathy or sympathy. Empathy, as in the ability to understand and feel what they're feeling, is overvalued - it is treated as the default "good to have" relationship quality. As a consequence, because people struggle to empathise with chronic depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar, personality disorders or suicidal thoughts if they've not had similar, they then believe they're not ready to talk about it or be useful, and will instead say to go to a specialist. Which is usually a terrible thing to say if you really think about it - please have your recovery off-screen and when you're ready, we can then re-engage.

Generally speaking, I'd rather people had more sympathy, the ability to care and feel compassion for others even if they don't feel the same. I might not know what my friends feel when they're undergoing a break-up, or being fired, or being gaslit by a coworker - but I can still be there for them. Eat together. Watch some stuff. Listen. It's honestly better to just treat it the same - I wouldn't want someone to be empathetic to depression, that'd be useless and unpleasant.

The people who say, "let's stop talking about it" seem to have missed both empathy and sympathy, making them especially pointless. It's hard to forget later.

[paxluporum]

1950's doctor: "Have you tried cocaine?"

[Enoch_Trismegistus]

People are most scared when forced to look inward and see themselves. Most indignant when required to question not just the narrative of the world around them but of their own narrative as well.

[R.Q.C.]

Glad more people are bashing "better help", the raid shadow legends of therapy

[juliaandcassie]

“Mental health is the most important thing in the world… Let’s stop talking about it.”
And that right there folks is how my ex-friends made me feel bad for being emotional in a time of crisis and said I was a bad friend for trying to talk out my emotions with them (who I thought I trusted…) in that desperate time of need.

[KasiresHK]

All of these skits hit so hard. Goddamn.

[badmotorfox]

My former employers at the British civil service were always keen to promote Mental Health Awareness Week — I sure was aware of my mental health working there, let me tell you

[zarathos]

"The more shit changes, the more it stays the same"

[Urodeprag]

1950s: "Im depressed" "Im not your wife bro"

[ShutUpAnge]

This is absolutely perfect, I love this. This could not be more accurate.

[wesleymitchell]

I felt that “I don’t think that’s what it is…” in my soul.

[martysmaps]

when you consider that in the 1950s they were providing therapy which they thought genuinely worked (basically just account for changes in science), you realize that nothing has changed except now therapy just costs more