[hurting__]

That's all my (now ex) partner ever said to me. I wasn't trying hard enough...when I was seeing a psychologist, a psychiatrist, hadn't SI in a month, taking two different types of medication, walking every day and meditating every night..apparently that's not good enough.. why do I even bother? Sick of nothing I do ever being good enough.

[Altered Moment]

Sick of nothing I do ever being good enough.

That is certainly not true. Maybe there are some people who think you are not trying hard enough but you know what....screw them, they just don't get it.

If you are doing all the things you mention you are doing plenty.

I cannot tell you how many times people have said to me if you would only do this or that you would be cured. I had a long conversation last night with a friend who doesn't get it and has been trying to fix me for a year. After arguing with him for a year he is finally starting to get it. I said what if you broke your back and were in a wheel chair...he started to say but but that is different. I called BS on him and told him flat out there was no difference between a physical disability and a mental one. It is just the stigma and lack of understanding that says there is a difference. He finally said yeah I guess you are right.

Don't do it to please other people do it for yourself and screw what they think.

[Fuzzybear]

[yumi]

I agree that some people just don't get it. Or they don't want to get it

[cocktailAnnie]

Stay away from Debbie and David Downers. Surrounding yourself with happy people will make you happier.

Do diabetics stop taking insulin? Do kidney patients stop dialysis? Why can't they try harder and get better?

[greentires4me]

Your doing the best that you can sure its not good enough for some people but of course you could do better. I hate it when people are so critical for some people its like they have to be right all the time. Just do right by you that all that I say you should do.

[Lorn]

It's hard for some people to see why someone isn't like they are if they're doing what they should be doing. If they're not as a person "should be", they must not be trying, doing it out of spite, etc. There has to be a reason for why things are as they are, and one that has a simple solution.

It's a problem with perspective. They don't have much of it.

[mulan]

I assure you, you are not the only one.
It's difficult for the ones who didn't go through this, to understand how hard it is to try, to work.
By the things you said, I would say that those people were wrong, you really try. They just don't understand it.
Although, it is very frustrating. I just try to shut down my hears, and think to myself, don't bother, they would never be capable of understanding that, but I know what I am doing, and I know that I'm doing my best. Sometimes is hard to do that, most of the time, specially when it is told by people close to you, it would be like a sword stabbed into your heart, but is simply not true.
But there is one true thing, one can't understand a thing, unless he/she had a large view about what it is really like, and even so, everyone experience things in is own way.
Some people in my family that already had depression, blame me many times, about not trying...and suposely they had experience that, so, imagine what it would be like to someone whithout any insightfull knowledge.