Living is easy with eyes closed

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"Even if your particular depression does include sadness, it’ll only be one of many other symptoms...."

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:01:49 +0930

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Even if your particular depression does include sadness, it’ll only be one of many other symptoms. The others might be much more painful and salient for you than the sadness is. Some people can’t sleep, others gain weight, some think constantly about death, others can’t concentrate or remember anything. Many lose interest in sex, or food, or both. Almost everyone, it seems, experiences a crushing fatigue in which your limbs feel like stone and no amount of sleep ever helps. Then there are headaches, stomachaches, and so on.

So, depression doesn’t necessarily mean sadness to us. (And a gentle reminder to non-depressed folks: being sad doesn’t mean you’re “depressed,” either.)

Depression is not sadness; it’s an illness that often, though not always, involves sadness. No amount of happy things will make a depressed person spontaneously recover, and, usually, no amount of sad things will make a well-adjusted person with good mental health suddenly develop depression. (Grief, of course, is another matter.) And sadness, on its own, does not cause suicide.

[…]People don’t kill themselves because they’re sad. They kill themselves because they have an illness that, among other things, makes them feel sad. It also makes them feel like their life is worthless, like they’re a burden to others, like death would be easier, and all the other beliefs that lead people down the path to suicide.

There is a tendency, I think, to assume that people are depressed because they are sad. A better way to look at it is that people are sad because they are depressed. That’s why, even if we could “turn that frown upside down!” and “just look on the sunny side!” for your benefit, it would do absolutely no good. The depression would still be there, but in a different form.

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- Miriam Mogilevsky, Depression Is Not Sadness: Junior Seau and Public Discourse on Mental Illness (via 10perfectblues)

foodtrucker: i’m in a ton of mutual follows with super cool people that I never talk to

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:59:33 +0930

foodtrucker:

i’m in a ton of mutual follows with super cool people that I never talk to

princesslifestylechoices: i am 100% for young women destroying the lives of the men who...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:57:09 +0930

princesslifestylechoices:

i am 100% for young women destroying the lives of the men who harass/assault them

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:57:50 +0930

tvaros: i love watching my innocent friends slowly transform into beautiful horny butterflies as we...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:54:46 +0930

tvaros:

i love watching my innocent friends slowly transform into beautiful horny butterflies as we get older

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Sat, 18 May 2013 11:31:12 +0930

I’m starting to struggle again. I’m sick of never feeling like I’ve made progress....

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:27:39 +0930

I’m starting to struggle again. I’m sick of never feeling like I’ve made progress. The smallest things still set me off.

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sshame: i hate that guys think that every girl is an insecure wreck that feels bad about herself...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:40:24 +0930

sshame:

i hate that guys think that every girl is an insecure wreck that feels bad about herself and stuff so theyre like “you’re beautiful” on signs and say shit like “every girl deserves to be called a princess” like we’re not a fucking charity that needs to be pitied all the time

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:52 +0930

glamour-parade: How do you politely tell someone that you want them naked on top of you

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:35 +0930

glamour-parade:

How do you politely tell someone that you want them naked on top of you

countfrankula: depression is like not giving a fuck and anxiety is like giving too many fucks and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:28:44 +0930

countfrankula:

depression is like not giving a fuck and anxiety is like giving too many fucks and when you have both it’s like fuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkk

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caraknightley: mini m&ms taste better than normal m&ms don’t even try to argue with me on...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:27:54 +0930

caraknightley:

mini m&ms taste better than normal m&ms don’t even try to argue with me on this

greatwhiteprivilege: don’t pretend to like me if you don’t don’t pretend to be my friend if you...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:17:28 +0930

greatwhiteprivilege:

don’t pretend to like me if you don’t

don’t pretend to be my friend if you don’t like me

don’t pretend you miss me if you don’t

don’t

don’t

don’t