TamaGirl444
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Has anyone experienced this and how did you overcome it?
I still find it sad that in 2014 depression is still looked down upon and people with it are often treated as they some kind of mentally ill patient and fobbed off by people around them and sometimes even doctors.
I've been dealing with extreme depression for the last 4 months and you can't explain what it feels like until someone has gone through depression, only way I can describe it has it a constant low mood day in and day out, if you're lucky, you may have a few hours or even a day where you feel you can face other people and live life without bursting into tears.
I've had people say to me, even my own family "why are you depressed for? You have a home, a family and food on the table everyday and you are always smiling"
That is usually what I typically get when ever I have a day where my depression hits me so hard, all I do is cry all day and I'm made to feel I'm being a brat and ungrateful. What people don't understand with depression is that its got NOTHING to with how much money or how many possessions you may have or even how good your life is currently. Depression is just is..... depression, you don't have to have a cause to experience and that depression comes in MANY forms and effects people differently.
And I still don't believe its taken seriously enough. I once went to my GP about my depression and I was fobbed off and was told I was being a silly girl and to get a grip and that was from a DOCTOR! So if some doctors behave in that manner, how are depression suffers supposed to overcome it?
I never went back to my GP since. Only way I've learned to get through everyday is to put a false smile on for other people and put a front on that everything is fine and dandy when actually behind that smile, its not.
So why do you all think depression is so frowned upon? And do you think there is a actual treatment are is it something suffers have to live with?
I still find it sad that in 2014 depression is still looked down upon and people with it are often treated as they some kind of mentally ill patient and fobbed off by people around them and sometimes even doctors.
I've been dealing with extreme depression for the last 4 months and you can't explain what it feels like until someone has gone through depression, only way I can describe it has it a constant low mood day in and day out, if you're lucky, you may have a few hours or even a day where you feel you can face other people and live life without bursting into tears.
I've had people say to me, even my own family "why are you depressed for? You have a home, a family and food on the table everyday and you are always smiling"
That is usually what I typically get when ever I have a day where my depression hits me so hard, all I do is cry all day and I'm made to feel I'm being a brat and ungrateful. What people don't understand with depression is that its got NOTHING to with how much money or how many possessions you may have or even how good your life is currently. Depression is just is..... depression, you don't have to have a cause to experience and that depression comes in MANY forms and effects people differently.
And I still don't believe its taken seriously enough. I once went to my GP about my depression and I was fobbed off and was told I was being a silly girl and to get a grip and that was from a DOCTOR! So if some doctors behave in that manner, how are depression suffers supposed to overcome it?
I never went back to my GP since. Only way I've learned to get through everyday is to put a false smile on for other people and put a front on that everything is fine and dandy when actually behind that smile, its not.
So why do you all think depression is so frowned upon? And do you think there is a actual treatment are is it something suffers have to live with?
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