[imchet]

So have you heard a variation of this before? I just got another, it's not the hand your dealt in life, it's what you do with it lecture. I do suffer from major depression, and to the point that I've been hospitalized, because I no longer felt I had the ability to not act out on the suicidal thoughts which had consumed hours a day for months. So did I make a mistake somewhere? Was a character flaw revealed? Oh we all are forgetful sometimes. Oh yeah? Can you remember what you did yesterday, or last weekend? Well I can't. Am I just not trying hard enough, am I just too self centered to think about and remember other people's needs? What, you say you have a personality disorder too? Well I'm pretty sure I could go to a psychiatrist too and get tested to find all sorts of things wrong with me as well. Remember that guy I told you about? The one who's on dissability because he can't hear very well in one ear. He could work, but he's either just too lazy, or has been disincentivised by the system.

My depression is every bit as real as cancer or a broken back, and the pain and innabilities are just as real. My anxiety can be nearly as crippling. The federal government has reviewed my case and offered me social security dissability insurance, immediately and without appeal based on the severity of my depression and the global and substantial impact it's had on my life, and continues to have. I have certainly been manipulate and scheming to meet my needs in life, as otherwise I could not have met my own basic needs, and now ultimately I realize I need help and support to get by. I know I've seemed just fine, and that I've had a lot of great achievements in my life. But this is the way things are now, and no pep talk, guilt trip, appeal, lecture, false comparison, or dismissal will alter the facts.

[Skeezyks]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts...

[Fuzzybear]

[downandlonely]

I agree that mental illness can be just as bad as a physical illness. Unfortunately, a lot of people are still ignorant about this.

For me, personally, work helps to ease my depression, but I know there are people who can't work.

[MickeyCheeky]

I'm sorry to hear this.

[bunnyhabit]

physical sickness is verifiable whereas mental problems are more evasive. people just think we are weaning piety from them

[Fuzzybear]