50 Posts About Mental Health That Are Too Real For Comfort

I like this way of thinking.

Some people have been mentally conditioned from years of Christian religious dogma to believe they are righteous and therefore superior to everyone else and so they are always judging people and making critical comments.

Why do people resort to negativity when seeing someone happy? Seriously, what put so much hate in their heart that they instantly want to bring someone down who is just enjoying their life?

In 2014 I resolved to no longer argue or post negative comments online. I have, on occasion, corrected misinformation but always politely and citing relevant sources. I think I made the right choice.

I do this often

Yes, it is. I feel exhausted all the time, staying in bed unable to do chores or even things I like. And I don't know why. Just feeling helpless.

I rarely feel "sad". Mostly, I just feel like not living anymore. It's not even "Wow! I bet heaven would be better than this." It's literally "Not existing at all would be better than this."

Depression makes your favorite meal taste like dust and a shower feel like a flaying while you relive your downfalls. You can numb it with alcohol and d***s and that bliss does save you a few minutes peace, but its always there waiting for you when you wake up. Its a disease that you cannot shake, at best you get help at most you learn to ignore it

Depression to me is a loud sucking sound. Nothing can penetrate the din going around in my brain. My hearing is gone. My sight is gone. My taste buds stop working. Everything tastes like wallpaper glue. I can't hear music that I love. Nothing and no one is of interest to me. I am a lifelong avid reader. My ability to follow a plotline dissolves and I am in a vacuum and unable to read. The only thing I find soothing is being in my bed with the covers over my head,literally. In this state I feel completely empty. I cannot feel the love of my family and friends. Worse still is the inability to feel the love I have for others. I can't feel anything. Psychiatrists have disagreed with me, telling me I'm wrong. Many of them did more harm than good. I stopped going to see them. I don't get all of the "sadness". I would love to feel something ,but nothing is there.

YES. For me, it’s also “I’ve been awake for 4 hours. I’m done, can I go back to sleep now?”

I think a lot of people get confused the first time they have a Subway. I did.

I need this for so many other things too! The few times I have had subway, I had other people order for me.

I bring my son, send him first and then I say "I'll have what he has, and I'll pay for us both".

It would be good to know WHY ppl have suck anxiety. Good to deal with it but what is at the root?

This one is my favourite.

Haha this is good. I would always hear a similar thing growing up regarding my excema. Why don't you just put on lotion. Oh why didn't I think of that. Like I am not already doing that every day, multiple times a day. The kids would call me grandma hands.

Wow... Such a simple explanation for something unexplainable. Brilliant!

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May I add, just because you can not see my handicap, doesn't mean I don't have one.

A few years ago I was going through a bad time. Everything seemed to go wrong. Every time i thought things couldn't possiblyget any worsethey did. I was having financial difficulties, my house was falling apart around me because I couldn't afford to do anything about it, my pet dog was poorly and needed round the clock care, I was full time carer to my mum who had cancer, my brother in law got killed in a freak accident. Being made redundant two days later was the final straw. I couldn't take any more. One of my managers said, "What have YOU got to be depressed about?"

Well done, you!

You are one of the lucky ones.

Well, well, well. How the turns have tabled.

awesome! great job by you

Life's a trip, a marathon, a headace and a gift

Also, two parents and one child is still a family. I have just one child and I've lost count of the number of people who feel they should question that. You'd have thought it was a crime to have one child and not want any more.

me and myself is still a family... no, it isn't...

And if you start a family, remember that you've only just started. There's a lot more work ahead.

Just the other day I told someone I was single and childless and happy - they tried to help me set up a dating profile and told me you can still have children, even at your age. As if at 46 I could not jave made these concious decisions by myseld.

^This

And then people always think it is your own fault for not "loving yourself enough" and you are overeating...

Very true

THIS.IS.SO.TRUE. and sad

I've been in a depression for a couple years and I can tell you, is pretty messed up. And people commenting fücked up stuff while depressed people might be scrolling through this topic for consolation and to feel understood, is just so wrong.

THEY FORGOT TO CENSOR THE S WORD! The world is probably going to end now....

It's universal basic income

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All. The. Time. And it is so depressing.

For me, it's tied to my self-care for exercise. I will be a health nut for a month; exercising frequently and being very good about my meal and food choices, drinking lots of water, etc. Then out of nowhere, I hit my "I do not care at all" phase. The want to do any exercise is gone. I will go get fast food for each meal because whatever, I want it and I'm tired of trying to find a healthy recipe and then preparing it. Then I gain weight, feel bad about myself, and then finally I wake up ready to do it all over again.

When I am like this, my highest ask of my self, exept my duties to my dog, is to take with me ONE thing from where I am sitting, to where it belongs, if Im going to move oast that area. Its not much, but it does help alot.