The other day I told someone how I feel about life by describing it as being miserable and painful, and that I'd prefer not to exist if I had the choice, and he replied that I need a to be admitted to a mental health institution and be treated because I am sick!! Am I alone that miserable that I wish to vanish, while all others embracing life with its good and bad?

[gary290]

People that don't understand elements of depression tend to be insensitive and say really stupid things. I believe many of us have had similar feelings as you. Not alone!

[Skeezyks]

I wake up every morning wishing I would just die...

***Trigger Warning***

I know I am most likely depressed, and I see life through dark glasses, but seriously, why do people find life as something beautiful, as a gift as some describe it? I think people, myself included, are delusional about life. We convince ourselves that it is beautiful to keep going, only to wake up at the moments of sickness and pain. I think we are intoxicated in this life, and the moments of sickness, pain, and death are the moments of truth when we are sober and completely awake. I had this state before, and I got out of it (I was intoxicated by hope I guess), but now I am back to this state that life is so miserable and not worth living or bringing children to. I wrote my post not (only) to say that that person was insensitive, but (also) to say how ironic life is, because it doesn't matter if you say the truth, as long as most people are delusional, then you are the crazy person if you are not. It is a scientific fact that most people are biased towards optimism but they don't know it. Yes, it has a survival value, but for what? To keep living in illusion?

[Open Eyes]

Mr. Stranger, you are experiencing situational depression and that can have an affect on how a person views life. That being said, when someone makes those remarks to you like that, the person is really not aware of the ways you are challenged and that other person could be so culturally brainwashed that they don't even recognize how toxic certain values and customs can be. For example, human beings have actually distorted their bodies in very unhealthy ways because it was a cultural custom. For example the oriental women that wrapped their feet until their feet were malformed, distorted and very hard to even walk on because it was a custom and thought to be desirable. Also there were people that began wrapping their infants heads so that their skulls would grown elongated and cone shaped. So different cultures/human beings have different perceptions of what they consider about life that is beautiful.

There are a lot of "insensitive" human beings in the world of humanity.

[reb569]

Many people who haven't struggled with MI don't understand it and it scares them and it often leads them to say inappropriate and careless things. They really just don't have a clue.

Living with MI is draining, exhausting and seemingly endless. You have to experience it to truely understand it.

[gayleggg]

You are not alone.

[avlady]

I am severley depressed especially in the mornings. i find it hard to get out of bed always plus i have degenerative disc desease which makes it hard to move my back to even get out of bed. Then it's coffee time my first cup of coffee gets in my system and i start to feel better. i don't know what i'd do without coffee, the caffeine in it keeps me going. i also have bipolar, schitzoaffective disorder, PTSD and was in 3 accidents. well i guess i have to live with it and hope a newer pill comes out for me and others. good luck to us all!!

[sans]

I struggle with this also