Teen Suicide Rates

[Belsnickel]

(02-22-2018, 04:51 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Most pill shamers as you aptly call them, have no idea what it's like to wake up and almost literally see gray.  If I had to guess, I would say I have relatively mild anxiety, and when it's not treated, it's horrible, because it's constant and you can't escape your mind.  It's basically OCD with stress on the "O".  I can't imagine what it would be like to have chronic depression.  When I am having anxiety, it usually gets better as the day goes on until I feel almost normal and then start over the next morning.  With depression it's all day and all night and never any relief. Pill shamers can go eff themselves, because I know what I experience, and it's a fraction of what people with depression suffer.  When someone's only relief is suicide, it's a little illogical to tell them a pill is bad for them.  

Depression isn't always constant. It can also come and go. There are a lot of varieties of it, for sure. I rarely get the really deep depression, but what experience is a rather constant state of apathy, for lack of a better word. It's not that I don't care about things, because I am someone that cares a lot (and this is why I have anxiety issues, as well), but I don't really derive joy from anything. I find things funny, and I enjoy certain activities, but if you were to ask me what makes me happy I genuinely have no real answer.

These mental conditions manifest in people in many different ways. It's really interesting when you see how differently these things can impact different people.