As someone with depression, depression isn’t like it is in media. It’s not the saddest person has depression. More often than not, or at least for me, it’s often the funniest or the most happy looking person is the one with depression. Just because I’m laughing and telling jokes, doesn’t mean I’m actually happy. I use comedy to mask it, just as most who suffer from depression, I think

@lester2588

18 күн бұрын

I second this statement 💯🎯🎯🎯

@user-zq9vi3gj2q

12 күн бұрын

Very accurate. We make our situations fun for those around us despite not truly having fun ourselves

@arielrife3792

12 күн бұрын

@@user-zq9vi3gj2q we tend to overcompensate to make sure that no one else has to feel the same way we do

I have high functioning anxiety and also struggle with depression sometimes. I don't bother to try even say that I have those things to other people cause past experience has shown that people generally do not understand it at all nor will they listen as somehow they know what to do about that stuff (Just be happy/Just stop overthinking). Most people have no idea as I do very well in my job and career and think I'm quite a happy person. ...if they only knew cause my mask is a thick one. In 2016 I went one year where I had strong panic attacks and they happened at the worst times...and I had NO IDEA why they were even happening (My first attack I didn't even know that was a panic attack, I thought I was dying and having a heart attack or something). There was nothing around me that I was afraid of or anything. But found that I was trying to hard 100% of the time whatever I did or thought. I had taken my battery well past the max and was short circuiting. A year of meds and doctors and a change of how my mental thoughts go helped and I while I improved a ton my anxiety and depression will always be a thing with me for the rest of my life it seems cause that's just how my brain is wired and I can't help it. If ONLY it was as easy as "just be happy" or "stop overthinking". I also didn't know that mental illness could be painful in so many different ways, not just physical. It's hard to explain but it is. But I'm glad it's in this video that the people going through mental health issues most of the time don't even understand what it is initially or why it's happening. I sure didn't.

@kathleenbigsmoke-mitchell4898

18 күн бұрын

❤

@breeinatree4811

17 күн бұрын

I understand. Virtual hugs.

I've lost my entire adult life to my depression/anxiety/Avoidant, and I'm 51. Never had a job or been in a relationship or my own place. Never functioned as an adult at all, really. All I do is hide from the world like an urban hermit and play video games. And now physical illness is overtaking me as well. I am a very sick man, and I am dying on the inside. AND YET, I never let it show. When I am around others, I don't seem weak or sad or vulnerable at all. I'm highly intelligent, extremely articulate, seemingly confident, and at times quite witty. I am a warmhearted and affable person who wants to get along with everyone. On the outside. On the inside, I am screaming into the darkness while a searing hot maelstrom churns all around me and destroys any hope I have of getting out of this trap. But on the outside, I'm fine. Of course I'm fine. How are you? I've never felt like it was okay to not be okay.

@breeinatree4811

17 күн бұрын

Quite often the person that you would least expect to be depressed, is. We mask very well when we have no one to turn to.

@TheComedyGeek

16 күн бұрын

@@breeinatree4811 Quite often, the person who puts the most effort into seeming happy is the one who is trying to convince themselves despite how they really feel.

Stop telling people "just get help" or "just see a therapist."

As someone with bipolar depression disorder and anxiety and possible other mental problems people who don't suffer with mental illnesses usually think the saddest person is the most depressed or if you're smiling and laughing means your okay and doing good for yourself which is never really the cast most of us just bottle up our emotions inside and are scared to say anything to someone we're close to because we're afraid on how they'll take it I've had close friends and family tell me for years "oh its just all in your head" or just to be happy like i have a choice in the matter I'm 21 now and still have to deal with people telling me these things like it's supposed to make me feel better when in reality it makes us feel much worse that people don't seem to take people that have mental illnesses seriously.

I can't word this strongly enough. DO NOT tell someone who is suicidal that they are being selfish. Let me say it again DO NOT TELL SOMEONE WHO IS SUICIDAL THEY ARE SELFISH!!! When we see no other way out and death is a welcome release saying we are selfish is a pretty selfish thing to do. Also we aren't made of glass and don't need to be treated with kid gloves. You can talk to us like any other person.

5:51 - As someone with ASD/Asperger’s I know the feeling

Kids with Autism and/or ADHD grow up into adults with Autism and/or ADHD. These adults deserve good resources just as much as the kids do.

one of the worst possible feelings is knowing that you can not even trust your own brain or senses. "Feeling crazy" is awful...

Unpopular take. People 150+ years ago and people in poor countries have indescribably harder lives. They don't talk about mental health, stigmatize it, are religious and have much better mental health than "modern" "science" based society. Schizophrenia and other conditions are absolutely real. The vast majority of you don't have anything wrong with you other than you are just leading boring meanless lives of laziness and immediate comfort.

Knowing that I was born addicted, Ive finally accepted that Im always going to be different..😢

#givepeoplewithmentalillnessachance

I get told "you tism won that one"

#stoppeoplewithmentalillnessfrombeingonsocialmediaforever