Re:What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed
by AndrewKemendo on Saturday June 09, 2018 @08:49AM
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I, for one, can count the number of times that talking to someone has helped my depression on 0 hands. That includes professionals.
Yea I'm in agreement with this. No direct effort to "help" has been useful at all.
You know what would be helpful, is if people actually started being honest about how not together their own lives are. Forget depression, I just want the average person to actively acknowledge and vocalize that they don't have all the answers and haven't figured things out.
One of the biggest sources of anxiety for me is looking around and seeing all the people who "have their shit together" and thinking that I'm the only one over here drowning. Yet when you talk with them one on one, it's pretty clear they don't have any better handle on things than anyone else.
Yea I'm in agreement with this. No direct effort to "help" has been useful at all.
You know what would be helpful, is if people actually started being honest about how not together their own lives are. Forget depression, I just want the average person to actively acknowledge and vocalize that they don't have all the answers and haven't figured things out.
One of the biggest sources of anxiety for me is looking around and seeing all the people who "have their shit together" and thinking that I'm the only one over here drowning. Yet when you talk with them one on one, it's pretty clear they don't have any better handle on things than anyone else.