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Old Mar 09, 2014, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by nakitakunai View Post
"You need to stop using it [your depression] as a crutch."

The person who said this was belittling me for not having a job yet, and I tried to explain to him that a lot of things that seem easy for a normal person are very very hard for someone with severe depression to do. His response to that was the ignorant statement above. And this was before I even graduated college; school itself was more than I could handle at the time. He went on to imply that it's basically a choice to have depression and that I needed to "get over myself and snap out of it." (Side note: I have not spoken to this person since.)
You handled that quite well... I'd have probably sworn at them
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