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Jul 26, 2022, 10:26 AM

Nobody chooses to develop mental illness, stopdog.

In my opinion, it's better to deal with something before it becomes something that could affect them long term, something like depression could easily, without help, go from being something mild, to potentially becoming life-threatening

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minor depression developing into major depression then suicide attempts, it only takes one successful suicide attempt to become fatal, meaning death

It could be like leaving something like cancer cause "its only mild" but then becomes more serious cause it wasnt addressed as early as possible.

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Depression is like cancer of the soul

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And yes, i have been seriously depressed years ago, with very little help, i had to fight for my life, i attempted suicide once and had two other plans that i put together, before my situation changed, saving my life

Depression is not something to just leave and see if it gets better, if someone is suffering from depression, they deserve to get helped. Even if their depression is situational, like mine was.

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Now my brain has decided to unlock some of the traumatic memories from that year, my situation wasnt student-related, i wasnt a student then, the basic thing was ex fiance of mine decided to disappear, leaving me with nothing and nowhere to live, and a cat who i had to rehome when i moved back in with family, the people i rehomed him to lost him weeks later cause they let him out and as far as i know they never found him

Then a whole heap of other crap kicked off, that my brain blocked so as a result, rehoming my cat was the only thing i can remember of that year without it being a flash

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In my case, it was trauma after trauma after trauma after trauma that caused so much of the year to get blocked out when i sort-of recovered, i had to fight suicidial urges all the time that year, even when i had no reason to fight.

I mean, another thing i get is social anxiety about being somewhere new, its why i have not been on any holiday since about 2005 i think, cause my fear gets too much, only time i arranged a holiday (well, Mum arranged it technically) i had to cancel it cause i got so stressed and anxious i was physically sick over going, it was 2013 when i would of gone on a coach holiday but due to my mental health, i genuinely was not well enough, i got so stressed out and fearful about going, it caused physical symptoms