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re: Seeing a lot of "mental health" posts here and in the news in general
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:03 am to Aspercel
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:03 am to Aspercel
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When you reply, can you please also address me as if you don’t believe I’m a woman? I like to not feel left out.
you're a woman. you have mental health issues. that's a fact jack.
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Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:03 am to sidewalkside
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YOU are YOUR OWN problem
No shite. Every depressed person will agree with you. The problem is that they are not “in control” of their own psyche, but rather the other way around. The jailer is their own brain. Telling people with severe chronic depression, especially people discussing suicide things like “just stop f$&king worrying about it” is like telling a sick person who can’t keep food down to “just stop throwing up”. They would if they could. They have TRIED.
The reason they are talking about it and seeking help in the first place is because they do not possess the necessary tools to beat their disease alone. Calling someone “soft” for seeking help with a disease is like calling someone “soft” for going to the doctor to cure their cancer. Did those St. Jude kids ever try not being sick? Loser chemo-patients. Back in my day, we just rubbed some dirt on leukemia, took a shot of whiskey, and got over it.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:04 am to Chad504boy
Sigh
That is you believing I’m a woman. I need the op to say I’m not so I don’t feel left out.
Or maybe not. You did call me jack. Very subtle…
That is you believing I’m a woman. I need the op to say I’m not so I don’t feel left out.
Or maybe not. You did call me jack. Very subtle…
This post was edited on 11/29/23 at 11:05 am
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:04 am to Chad504boy
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Chad504boy
Put down the bottle and maybe go seek help
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:06 am to sidewalkside
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Deal with it and keep your life moving.
This is the attitude that's created the mental health monster you see today.
Mental health issues are more than just "You're fine, just be happy. Your life isn't that bad".
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will never understand people who are crippled with anxiety and so feeble and weak
Well since you can't understand it, it must not exist or millions of people are just making it up.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:06 am to sidewalkside
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will never understand people who are crippled with anxiety
Well then consider yourself fortunate
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:07 am to sidewalkside
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some people live their entire lives in fear of being offended by something or someone
You're so dumb you manage to confuse 'wokeness' with chemical imbalances leading to clinical depression or anxiety.
In my early to mid 30's, anxiety came out of nowhere and started to hit me hard. I fought it, without treatment, but it was a brutal battle.
Two things really set my anxiety high: driving and work meetings.
If I was in the office, I would just be sitting in the middle of a training session or some random meeting, not even needing to talk, and my skin would crawl. I would get sweaty, short of breath, felt like I was about to pass out. I knew I needed to leave the room to get my wits but, when you're having a panic attack, you worry about even the repercussions of getting up and walking out. Even on phone meetings, if I had to talk, it was pure misery. I would start to panic and completely lose track of my thoughts and what I was saying. As someone who is talented in their field and looked upon as an "answer man", this was NOT good.
With driving, I had a tough time driving my kids five minutes to school. I would, again, get lightheaded, heart pounding, sweaty palms....I described it to my doctor as "nausea of the head", because my head felt just like an upset stomach. I had to drive to Chicago one time with my kids while dealing with this....it was, without a doubt, one of the worst experiences of my life. Imagine a 12 hour heart attack and that's what it felt like.
Finally, I'd had enough and spoke with my doc and he put me on a mild anti-anxiety med. Dude, when I tell you I literally yelled with joy in my car the first time I consciously realized I was driving without anxiety, I am not kidding. It was AMAZING. I was back to being Mr. Reliable at work, speaking out regularly and confidently, and my career skyrocketed.
So don't tell me that anxiety is just a matter of "manning up". I tried that shite, son. It doesn't fricking work when you're trying to battle a literal chemical imbalance in your brain. Getting treatment was the best thing I've ever done.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:09 am to IndianMoundFireworks
Board consensus is you’re a low IQ buffoon if you don’t take Zoloft and pay somebody $500 a week to talk about your problems
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:09 am to sidewalkside
How old are you?
All of us could muscle through shite when we were 35.
All of us could muscle through shite when we were 35.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:11 am to sidewalkside
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sidewalkside
You sound like a big ole:
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:11 am to sidewalkside
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Listen woman (lol yeah right) if you haven't learned yet that you can't control anything but your own actions in life and are blaming society and some over arching societal beliefs to mental health YOU are YOUR OWN problem. You can't control anyone or anything else but yourself. there is no "man" keeping you down
God you are intensely stupid. Major Depressive Disorder, like all disease processes, has an identifiable symptomology that is remarkably consistent across cultures. It isn't the same as 'feeling sad' or whatever image you have of the word 'depression' in your head.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:12 am to mmmmmbeeer
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mmmmmbeeer
Thank you for sharing such an inspirational story. but you didn't die from being in meetings did you? no. and you took action and got treatment. GREAT! You did exactly what I said people should do. DEAL WITH IT and keep life moving.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:13 am to S
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will never understand people who are crippled with anxiety Well then consider yourself fortunate
Imagine you’re at home. You’re just sitting scrolling td and flipping channels trying to unwind after work. Suddenly, out of nowhere, your brain and entire body start reacting like you’re being hunted for sport. You have no idea where that fear came from. It doesn’t make any sense. You know that no one is out to get you. Yet, your brain is telling you to hide because “they’re coming” and if anyone sees you, you’ll be brutally murdered.
You just want to go grab a sandwich from the fridge, but your wife or your roommate or your friend is in there, and your brain is telling you they can’t see you either. No matter how irrational the fear is, and how much you try to internally explain it away to your brain, the physical feeling of intense fear and anxiety simply won’t stop, like an unending panic attack. So, you try to distract yourself until it goes away, and it eventually does…for now.
The fact that it’s all irrational and in your head makes it actually worse. That means there’s something wrong with your body that you cannot control but rather controls you. Doctors tell you that it’s all in your head (no shitte), but all they can do is give you drugs that replaces that problem with a different one.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:14 am to sidewalkside
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Thank you for sharing such an inspirational story. but you didn't die from being in meetings did you? no. and you took action and got treatment. GREAT! You did exactly what I said people should do. DEAL WITH IT and keep life moving.
So your issue isn't so much with treatment or counseling, but rather the need to talk about it or, perhaps, whine about it without going to talk to a doc?
If so, yeah, agreed. But that's not the way most of us are reading your OP.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:15 am to sidewalkside
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Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:16 am to sidewalkside
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I deal with anxiety and depression
How do you deal with it?
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:17 am to HogX
This guy is a SFP alter. Reeling’em in.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:18 am to sidewalkside
I have never dealt with any of this on a personal level, but you keep rambling on about them blaming anyone other than themself for the problem. I think most of them know they're the problem themselves. That's where the issue is.
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:19 am to Aspercel
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What does any of that have to do with you not believing mental health issues do in fact exist?
I believe mental health issues exist, but it seems to me that increased awareness of and use of mental health terminology hasn't made anything better. It seems like "focusing on mental health" actually just makes more people feel like they have mental health problems, and get more people on pharmaceuticals.
I tend to think that exercise, eating better, sleeping better, and spending less time on social media would probably have more benefit on average for more people than therapy and / or meds.
This post was edited on 11/29/23 at 11:20 am
Posted on 11/29/23 at 11:19 am to kingbob
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Imagine you’re at home. You’re just sitting scrolling td and flipping channels trying to unwind after work. Suddenly, out of nowhere, your brain and entire body start reacting like you’re being hunted for sport. You have no idea where that fear came from. It doesn’t make any sense. You know that no one is out to get you. Yet, your brain is telling you to hide because “they’re coming” and if anyone sees you, you’ll be brutally murdered.
You just want to go grab a sandwich from the fridge, but your wife or your roommate or your friend is in there, and your brain is telling you they can’t see you either. No matter how irrational the fear is, and how much you try to internally explain it away to your brain, the physical feeling of intense fear and anxiety simply won’t stop, like an unending panic attack. So, you try to distract yourself until it goes away, and it eventually does…for now.
The fact that it’s all irrational and in your head makes it actually worse. That means there’s something wrong with your body that you cannot control but rather controls you. Doctors tell you that it’s all in your head (no shitte), but all they can do is give you drugs that replaces that problem with a different one.
it's funny how everyone assumes I have not been through these things and worse and that my life has always been easy and ive never had "real" challenges like them...I'm not going to be one of these people who want to compare adversities and try and prove Ive had it worse. Thats a losers mentality. deal with it and keep moving
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