My Support Forums - View Single Post - what NOT to say to someone with depression.....????

shortandcute · Jan 01, 2013, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by gloomyday

Right after Christmas, I felt really depressed and my mom knew it and she said, "It seems like your being ungrateful. Because you're still thinking about harming yourself and you just got presents..." or wtf she said (I was to upset to remember). She cannot talk number one AND how does a person just snap out of depression based on gifts...I used to think money couldn't buy people happiness...but what have I experienced?...."I'm just a kid".

Someone said something similar to me once:
At the time, my 2nd husband had kicked me and our son out of the house so he could move some of his hookers in with him (his excuse was that the doctor "told him" that I was the one who caused his mental illness) and filed for divorce. I rented a room from an older lady and was very depressed. I already had depression but the divorce was making it worse. I was feeling sick a lot--I found out later that my husband gave me a little "treat" that he picked up from one of his prostitutes. Well, there was another lady whose family were friends with some of my family for years. She was always helping me out, and she would often bring food for me and my son and the lady who I was living with. Well, one time she came over and I was feeling very sick that day and very depressed and discouraged. My "roommate" jumped all over me later about how ungrateful I was. I was very grateful but I was depressed and sick.