False: When you recover from it, you learn it’s one advantage.
This isn’t poetic or romantic, just the truth if you’ve had depression and think about it.
It’s like that compass Captain Jack Sparrow has; It doesn’t point north but it points in the direction you need to go, but if you don’t go in that direction; that compass is going to start spinning all over the place and basically go nuts.
That’s what depression is like to those who suffer it. A lot of people can get away with doing what they want even if they don’t like it themselves. If one of us with depression do something that’s:
- Emotionally harmful to us
- Physically harmful to us and
- Ignore that it’s either of these
This is where depression comes in. You’ve not been taking care of yourself so you don’t get to drive or direct anymore; it’s mad at us.
You finally learn the good side to depression when you have a fall the second time (or rather lead up to one). You recognise the feelings, you start to figure out early what’s the issue and you get back on track.
Depression points you towards taking care of yourself; that sounds like a fucking perk to me.
And for those who don’t get to recover? For those of us who have a physical, chemical imbalance and need to be on pills for the rest of their lives? You don’t learn to get better.
And just because you’ve suffered before doesn’t mean you can do any better the next time. Each time I fall, it’s worse and worse, no matter how early I catch the signs.
Maybe you learn and grow, but I don’t think there are any positives. Any.
^Yeah, I don’t think this post is referring to occasional moodiness, but more to major depressive disorders, which are not pretty, or romantic, or something you “recover” from.
Actually that’s exactly how bipolar disorder works, and it’s certainly not just “feelings a little down.” And recognizing your cycle and how it works is actually something that’s really useful and helpful, I’ve had to memorize like 18 different ways my cycle works and find out what helps when I’m manic what helps when I depressive what makes me feel better when I’m in between what happens when my body decides to do both at the same time.
It’s coping methods, anyone can learn them, pills are a coping method so lets not play the who has it worse game.
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