This makes me sick.

[nekolalia]

 I am so angry right now. It's one thing when complete strangers are ignorant and horrible, but when you have to deal with these traits in your own friends, it's almost unbearable. One of my friends posted this as her status update on facebook

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[8cake]

I completely agree.

I really look forward to a world one day where people are less ignorant of mental health issues, since at least one in five Australians will suffer from depression during their life, and an even greater number from depression and/or anxiety issues.
I hate the stigma that goes with these things. Especially beacuse most of the time there is a physical cause, like brain neurons firing slowly, or chemical imbalances in the body, etc, etc.

[nekolalia]

Yeah, I think a lot of it hasn't been helped by the emo movement, which resulted in countless teenagers calling themselves depressed or eating-disordered when they really just wanted attention. But there are so many people out there dealing with serious problems that make life unbearable, and the last thing they need is this sort of intolerance :(

[kanzashi_hime]

I totally agree with this.

Recently I was actually diagnosed with depression and was put onto anti-depressants, but it is something I've been struggling with for 8 years. Many times have I thought just to end it all but I have to think about who will care for my blind aunty if I were to die...still, even with this in mind, I still struggled to convince myself to just keep going.

Anti-depressants has helped, but now I struggle to sleep and other side-effects which makes daily life harder.

It saddens me to see people make a joke of anothers suffering. Do they honestly think someone will kill themselves for attention?!

[nekolalia]

Sorry to hear you're suffering too. I know too many people struggling with depression and other mental illnesses. The way I see antidepressants, after being on them for quite a few years now, is that they help to keep you alive, but they don't make you happy. The side-effects can be pretty awful too. Mine make me disaffected and empty-feeling, which is better than suicidal but not exactly great.

I think people joke about these things because they just have no understanding at all, and it's easier to joke and pretend you know how things are, than to learn a little and be compassionate. I think people are frightened of it.

[kanzashi_hime]

I felt the same way the first couple weeks I was on it, but I put it down to the fact that I was missing the storm that was constantly brewing inside me...though I did notice I was quite numb to emotions, it was like someone turned the off-switch. It has gotten much better since then but it's terrible when I forget to take it since I feel 10x worse than before I started taking antidepressants.

How did your family take it? Mine were kinda odd as I really had to explain to them what it was like for me. They don't really believe in depression (and even think when you have suicidal thoughts is because of bad ghosts - I'm Asian, that's why).

[nekolalia]

My mum has been pretty understanding all things considered (though sometimes she can get her head around my anxiety). My dad doesn´t get it at all but I just don´t talk to him about it really. I tend to keep it to myself as much as possible around my family.

[anonymous]

Hey hon,
I hope you don't mind but I'm re-posting this on my blog as I think a lot of people don't consider the actual mental state of the person who's committing suicide. People in a normal mental state don't want to throw themselves onto train-tracks.

Let me know if you're not cool with this and I'll remove it.
xox

[nekolalia]

Hello! That's fine by me, the more people who get a realistic picture of mental illness, the better I say!