About depression

Arthur Yeh
Oct 21, 2020

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I’ve always had depressing thoughts now and then. Some are invisible and some are severe.

I searched online about it and the thing caught my attention repeatedly was

I feel like people around the subject of depression just don’t know how to properly react to it.

and I think that’s a big part of the reason why depression is so hard to identify and solve. It’s misunderstood and, in some cases, ignored.

Here’re some images that pop up when I was feeling depressed, which I feel will cure a person with depression.

  • After telling someone that I have depression, he tells me to infect him so then we can be depressed together.
  • After telling someone that I have depression, he tells me that he doesn’t think depression is a bad thing at all.
  • Having a so much money that I can eat whatever I feel like eating without worrying
  • Live with someone that I know will never leave me for the rest of my life.
  • Hurt someone that had hurt me before so hard that I can tell he will develop trauma from it.

In all, I think the reason why depressed people get hurt even more from others’ reactions is because:

  • The subject knows it is able to be cured by anyone around him, but they’ve been acting like they don’t know how to.
  • Their reaction feels ingenuine; they won’t tell you how they really feel about it.
  • Their reaction is bad, which makes you cynical and stop you from believing there’d be anyone who could cure it for you.

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