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Originally Posted by Hellion
Perhaps if you made so much progress you wouldn't feel the need to be cruel as that does not solve anything. Like I said I think there are various factors and one includes people implying its 'wrong' to get help for mental illness symptoms and that only treatments that treat 'causes' when its actually a combination of various factors that contribute to mental illnesses and disorders...its already hard enough without getting people on your back about which treatment options you choose.
I don't see why people have to be so pushy about their opinions, I don't go telling people the ought to be on meds if they are uncomfortable with it...or anything like that. I've had bad experiances with them, so I can see why people are hesitant to want to go that route and why people encourage other potentially healthier treatment options but it should be an individual choice with no stigma either way.
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You're absolutely right, I was being too pushy, and I did try to force my opinion on others.
Which is obviously not right. I just feel, I made so much progress, and seeing some posts here, remind me of some of the "mistakes" I made in the past months. But of course I know now, that these "mistakes" had to be made, for me to discover which is my road to recovery. And that might only be true for me.
But since this is a depression forum, I thought I share my thought about what seems to be working for me, and I'm on the way of defeating depression.
I know that I can't force my opinion on others, and I don't want to. I just felt a bit angry, because I thought, that lots of people are coming here for support, and they don't get it if we talk about chemical imbalance, and not real life problems.
This thread has gotten ten times more views, than any other thread, where people are actually talking about their real life problems. And this shows the desperation, and the "blaming of outside circumstances" that are always huge parts in people dealing with depression.
I just felt it's not going in the right direction, and I'm glad that I've gotten some long, detailed and deep responses. Now I will never ever going to even think about "insulting" Jeffro, or anybody else.
But now Jeffro's questions and posts make much more sense to me, now that he's given some backround on his condition.
I know that these are deep, personal stories, and traumas, and one might not want to share it, but here, we are anonym, and we can go "naked" in front of each other. And that's what I wanted to point out, that in my opinon helps a lot in curing depression, and not just to ease the symptoms.
I'm sorry for being cruel and pushy, I know that's not the right form of support either.