You know, I read once that the difference between someone who's emo and someone who's depressed, is that the one who's emo cries out for attention, while the one who's depressed cries out for help
( Read more... )
So emo people aren't really depressed and the main variable between emo-ness and depressiveness is the people they tell, assuming that they have 2 or 3 people to tell for support.
It might be a lil more complicated than what you're implying.
Hmm..the emo people usually do have 2-3 people to tell their tale of woe to but the issue is that its not really that they want honest, life-changing help..they just want the attention and to be coddled and its a consistent, constant behaviour from them. Usually when someone has an issue of some sort, they are able to talk it out, get advice, make changes and move on with their lives, emo people, in general, arent interested in changing their lives, just seeing how much attention they can get that day..like a bad habit.
How would this compare with people who are really depress and need support? If people were able to simply able to talk it out, get advice, make changes, adn move on... People wouldn't get depressed.. though I believe some would say depression is an unwillingness for change..
Where is the line break between people who are depressed and attention seekers that use depression as a tool?
I can see soemone who can fake being depressed and trying to get attention .. and have them being labelled as emo
But I can also see someone who is extremely depressed and honest.. and still being called emo.
As I said, emo people will take out a billboard. They'll announce it to everyone, friend and stranger alike, in public. They don't care who you are, only whether or not you'll give them attention.
Someone who's depressed is more likely to come to you in private and try to get your attention that way.
Depressed people feel alone. They hold their problems in and it eats them up, until they reach a critical point where they DO let it out to someone. Someone who's emo will act like it's the end of the world and that everyone hates them, when someone they don't even know, doesn't look at them at a party.
After years of helping people in general what Ive learned that is that in the 'kin community overall is that 'the squeaky wheel gets the oil'. Its the strangest phenomena that you can portray yourself as weak and unable to handle things like breathing on your own yet people will fall over themselves to help them ALL DAY...EVERYDAY. I was foolish enough to take on people who cried out for 'help' but in the end, they were used to getting attention that way. The Draconic community as a whole was (Ive not been around much lately) wrought with these kinds of bottom feeders and it was hard to find the people that really did need help.
My solution was to stop helping -everyone- and just try to be there for the quality people in my life. Id say most of the pain and suffering I was put through was due to bad judgement and emo people. Not going to do it again...
And I like putting '...' after my sentences just because..its just how I actually speak with pauses ;)
Comments 5
It might be a lil more complicated than what you're implying.
Reply
Reply
Where is the line break between people who are depressed and attention seekers that use depression as a tool?
I can see soemone who can fake being depressed and trying to get attention .. and have them being labelled as emo
But I can also see someone who is extremely depressed and honest.. and still being called emo.
Reply
Someone who's depressed is more likely to come to you in private and try to get your attention that way.
Depressed people feel alone. They hold their problems in and it eats them up, until they reach a critical point where they DO let it out to someone. Someone who's emo will act like it's the end of the world and that everyone hates them, when someone they don't even know, doesn't look at them at a party.
Reply
My solution was to stop helping -everyone- and just try to be there for the quality people in my life. Id say most of the pain and suffering I was put through was due to bad judgement and emo people. Not going to do it again...
And I like putting '...' after my sentences just because..its just how I actually speak with pauses ;)
Reply
Leave a comment