depression isn't real. there is no happy pill, and no way

>>36638129
Depression is very real. To be a young person with a family (wife and child), and to be diagnosed with aggressive stage 4 cancer, depression is a very real thing. You can't not think about the cancer, the pain, the loss of time and impact you will will have with your child, how every memory you make with them will possibly be one of the last memories they have of you. The thought of being forgotten. The thought that your existence is actively, or will eventually, cause pain to the people you love most.
Depression isn't real for you because you've never felt real depression.

>>36638224
This
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>>36638129
>asnd stop thinking you're a loser
But i am a loser, its objectively true

>>36638129
you never had depression
you had "meme depression"
there's people out there with actual neuro-chemical imbalances which hinder them from leading a productive life
don't paint everyone using the strokes of your own experiences
that's an incredibly naive thing to do

>>36638129
I've been depressed for about eight years now. My parents never really knew how to react to it - supportive today, disappointed tomorrow, you get the idea. I tried explaining myself to them, and it didn't really get me anywhere.

Well, that's not quite true - I did get to see a psychologist once. Not a namby-pamby therapist like you Americans pay to listen to you: a true slav psychologist whose day job was weeding out depressive people from the military. He was surprisingly nice. We talked about why I was depressed, what could possibly have caused it and how to deal with my feelings.

I remember, at the end of our "session", he was telling me that this isn't the end of the world - that my depression was a surmountable obstacle that I would eventually get through. I remember shrugging and saying "you're right... at least I don't have cancer". Not my best joke, but he did find it somewhat amusing.

Unfortunately, I made the mistake of reading your post, and find my joke considerably less hilarious now.

>>36638129
depression is real, but ridiculously overdiagnosed.

>>36638129
>my advice, listen to some classical music and try to make some of your own original work, or read a book and start writing that idea you have down, just maybe a few lines every night, don't rush yourself, eventually you'll at least be proud of.
Fantastic advice for someone who may be a little sad or insecure, unfortunately depression can't even be compared to these things.

You see, depression is being physically unable to anything at all. You can't listen to classical music, you can't do something original, you can't read a book, you don't have any ideas.

On a bad day, I just wait until I can sleep again, so it hopefully passes, sometimes it doesn't.

This is why depressed people kill themselves. Not because they're sad, but because they legitimately have no reason to live.

>>36639929
Underrated, the end made me kek anon gj

>>36639839
So much this. I wanted to kill myself at age 10 or so, with a "perfect" life, family, etc. No abuse - nothing objectively 'wrong' except my neurochemistry. Kids that age can't fake that shit. They just don't have the mental capacity to do so.