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Originally Posted by zinco14532323
The heck with it. I posted this image on my facebook to try to educate my friends. We will see what kind of responses I get. |
I really only got two responses on face book to that image. People shy away from it. I did get 5 likes.
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Think happy thoughts and realize all that is positive in your life, after all you woke up this morning ! Have a wonderful day...... If you do something for someone else it takes the focus off your problems and gives you joy helping others . : )
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She is trying to be helpful but doesn't have a clue.
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Telling a depressed person to change their attitude is kind of like telling someone to grow another arm. Chronic depression is not a negative outlook it's a medical condition.
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She gets it and I know she has a family member who has it.
I have like 238 friends on face book. we will see if anyone else responds. It seems to me people don't want to talk about it.
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For some people, they need medication to help them, it is more than thinking positive. We need to be more understanding and be helpful to people who suffer mental illness. It is like a person with type one diabetes and is treated with insulin to manage blood sugars, it is the same with people with mental illness who suffer the stigmas as diabetics do. Diabetics as well as those with mental illness are treated as weird, how is that helpful. We need to have an open heart to all people.
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Very understanding
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Don't just sit there...get active! Get out of where you are and be active. Go for a walk, go to the library, the shopping mall. Break the cycle of being alone! Dispel the self defeating thoughts! Talk to a counselor that you trust. Depression can live inside of us if we feed and care for it. Convert negative thoughts to think positively. You will be happy! Self esteem is the experience of being capable of meeting life's challenges on life's terms and being worthy of happiness.
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These are the responses that drive me crazy. It just eats at me. Can't he see that the person on the left probably can't even get out of bed, is probably suicidal, and will be lucky to reach out for the help they need. That is the risk I took by posting on face book. Now I cannot keep myself from responding and that means putting myself out there is a personal way. I hadn't made it anything about me I just posted the pic. He knows I have depression and sees fit to give me advice on how to fix it. I am very tempted to type a very long list of everything I have done over the last 20 years to fix it in response.