^So "feeling blue" literally is blue.
^So "feeling blue" literally is blue.
It's a real illness, however only you as a person can do something about it. You. Change your mind = change your life.
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“Never forget who you are for surely the world won't. Make it your strength, then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it and, it can never be used to hurt you." - Tyrion Lannister
I dunno if anyone else has expierenced this, but I kinda get some sort of pain/tightness in my chest when I get depressed.
Unfortunatley, my depression is not self pity. I wish it was and I could snap out of easily, but I can't.
I don't think depression is self-pity.
I can't believe this is a question that it still asked today.
I know this is on a mental health forum and all, and I'm not suggesting this is what the OP was thinking, but:
People don't understand what they've never expierenced or what they don't understand. Before I became depressed, I didn't know that depression could be a chemical inbalance in my brain. It's not like a broken leg, or cancer, or any other physical illness. People know they're not fake because people go into hospital and die because of them (cancer anyway...)
And the depressed person? Therapy, counselling, and it's suicide if they die because they're depressed, it's not like dying of cancer.
I've come across a lot of people that simply think the cure for depression is to be happy. Heck, I used to think that, something I feel bad about now. And then depression hits, it can happen to anyone with the right triggers...
In my happier times, I used to think depression WASN'T real, and even kidded my myself that the anxiety Id had before wasn't real. God, feel bad about that one now and know that it is.
I went through a terrible bout of depression about 10 years ago, and was surprised how debilitating it was. I forced myself to get up and go to work at least half the day, was on Paxil for three months. Did not like how it made me feel and stopped. Although I have some down times I have never experienced that level of depression since, thank God. I try to let myself ride through the emotion, accept it and force myself to do something positive that I like. Bottom line it is real.
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
Define Yourself
-Robert Frost-
Severe depression is most definitely an illness. Saying there is a lot of self pity going on is plain ridiculous. Throughout all of my experiences with major depression, self pity has been only a very little part of it, if any part at all. Anyone who has ever been severely depressed has to know that it IS an illness.
I can be quite a stoic person, so I am not sure I would qualify my depression as self-pity.
Depression is more than just sadness, and yes, it is an illness.
Don't shoot me for saying this, but I think depression, self-pity and sadness get mixed up. For example, you get someone who's slightly down and then feels better, and then concludes that depression is not that bad, and that it's just self-pity. Then you've got the people who have had it for decades and have tried every med and therapy possible and don't feel any better.
I'M GONNA FIGHT 'EM ALL
A SEVEN NATION ARMY COULDN'T HOLD ME BACK.......
I have been rather depressed lately. One could determine it to be partially situational but depression has been with me on/off my entire life. I wish I cold just snap out of it also, like others have said. And, to some degree, it's always with me, on the best of days lying dormant but still there. I don't pity myself at all. I just hate the way the world is, the way people are and am depressed to know that will never change and never get any better.
"You can never really know a person and if you think you can, you're living in a fucking dream world!" David Fisher, Six Feet Under