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Depression is all in your head
Sep 24, 2021 1:51 AM
johnvilnis
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Depression is all in your head
BrewBQ
It took me a long time to even begin to understand my wife's depression. I don't think I'll ever fully get it, but I try to be supportive.
gwiz665
People say it's in your head like it's imagined, not like it's the chemical imbalance that it is.
whitebbwolf
depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain. it is NOT a decission
Onlyhereforthelaughs
"Of course it's happening inside of your head. But why should that mean it isn't real?" - Dumbledore
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Growth hormones are also in your head, I can still measure your fucking height.
firecloud42
You don’t get people telling that stuff if you don’t tell them you have depression…totally healthy >.>
Iaimtomisbehave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw
ceribia
Source: https://www.akimbocomics.com/?p=573
dragontail420
"just"
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Nut up.
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johnvilnis
Who is mocking the depressed person? This is mocking those around them not helping. I am depressed.
Balls44Red5
I've found that people younger than me (under 40) are far better about talking to me about my depression. Older folks tell me to cheer up
FrenchTheLlama2
Fucking hate "it's just in your head" no shit you fucking wander where else would it be, would it be okay if it was in my fucking knee?
Yinyang107
"Of course it is all in your head," said Dumbledore. "But why on Earth should that mean it is not real?"
TheCatAndHerDoodles
^ This.
TeishaTaisha
I KNOW it's all in my head. I KNOW I should get up, but I can't. It's like being trapped in mech suit with someone lazy piloting.
johnvilnis
Anyone else had someone say to you: 'Just think happy thoughts and it will go away.'
Josesharlo
I once had a pastor tell me that I needed to repent of the sin of depression
JTechnopotheosis
he answer to both situations is "You need to go see a doctor, rather than expect the uneducated people around you to know how to help."
upsidedownfox
My favourite is "what do you have to be depressed about?" Like you can't be mental ill, if you have no obvious problems to deal with.
sadurdaynight
Those same folks say "money can't buy happiness", so they're hypocrites. You "have everything" so can't be depressed, but someone that 1/
sadurdaynight
"has everything" can still be depressed. Basically, they say whatever justifies how they feel, not how you feel./
tepix523
Because of the chemical imbalance in my brain that I was born with????
SlowStarling
Imagine if people applied the same logic to physical injuries. "What, you broke your leg? But you didn't even jump out of a plane!"
just4thelolz
Of course it's in your head. Where else would it be?
Brickham
I am trying to find the tap that lets it out.
hamadele
In your hand
Maclacakop
Ya it’s in my head, unfortunately I live in there
StarsArising
Well, *obviously,* Serotonin deficiency is stored in the balls
johnvilnis
It is really a way for people to say 'You are making it all up and it's not real'.
CameForNatalieDormer
One thing that drives me crazy is when people say something in our head is "just chemicals". Duh. ALL PERCEPTION IS JUST CHEMICALS. Fuck.
Iycelium
That really is a good comeback line though. I'll be sure to remember it.
Redshadow09
excuse me but some of us have depression in our butts
Tarmaccian
I keep my depression in my left foot's middle toe, of course. That way when I feel sad, I can kick the coffee table and feel better.
Bondsmith10
in the rest of the body, where depression is proven to cause havoc
DutchBoeremeisie
But also, his point is that psychological problems are also physical.
just4thelolz
I guess so, yeah.
combatwombat0
"the body keeps the score"
astrangehop
Fuck. *Nods*
Justin31354
But why on earth should that mean that it’s not real?
cainofdreaming
"If it's in your head it isn't real." So, brains are fiction?
agathos
They do seem pretty implausible. A wrinkly lump of goo, that can think?
Brickham
It shouldn't. Imagine thinking happiness wasn't real because it's invisible and all in your head. What an existence.
DaddyDaddyCool
actually it looks grose he shouldkeep that hand in pocket all the time, there should be new hand fight club: first rule of hand fight club:
Toro1d
I really wish that people who say shit like this could feel real depression for a short while. Just long enough to learn what its like.
Silas007
Long enough to learn what it's like may mean death.
megazord666
I always thought that. Like I wish people could see the world through my eyes for a moment. There’s a tangible weight to these feelings.
AnythingMuchShorter
People who don't have chronic depression do get that way for short periods of time, that's why they think it can just go away in a few days.
CampbellsChunkyCyst
I finally got medication for it after 30 years. The real eye-opening moment was when I went off my meds for a week. THAT was fucking insane.
CampbellsChunkyCyst
Every depression symptom, rapid-fire and unrelenting. I half-wish everyone could experience it once to know what chemical imbalance is like.
TrueNorthernLights
This. It's not "sadness because I broke up with someone" level stuff, that you know will go away over time. It's not even sadness. It's (1
TrueNorthernLights
- an inability to feel ANYTHING.
Brucecori2
Yeah. I told my doctor I was completely apathetic to just... everything. Got on new meds. They're helping bit by bit. I cleaned my house! ?
Brucecori2
But after months of being shut down and isolating myself from my friends and family, it's hard to try and step back in. There's guilt.
Sxualhrssmntpanda
Tbh he probably shouldn't be walking around with an untreated smashed hand just expecting it to go away on its own either. Get help, folks.
baddream
if everyone around you is telling you you're wrong about your mental illness you prolly wont get help either. thats the point
sadurdaynight
In the US, it costs money to get help. A lot of folks are depressed due to lack of job, lack of money, etc. So, can't afford to get help.
CampbellsChunkyCyst
Getting treatment is fucking expensive, though. I only finally got a diagnosis and therapy once I got a job that let me afford it.
mytruepersonality
That's not the point of this comic but it is true.
Pomaket
Multi lesson comic! Wooo
JTechnopotheosis
the point of the comic seems to be that people with no medical knowledge or training are in the wrong for not understanding a medical issue.
mytruepersonality
Its not just that. Its the fact that since most people can't see depression as a physical thing they minimize the problem. There is a 1/?
mytruepersonality
sad belief that people who are depressed must be faking it since its all a matter of thinking differently when its not. depression can 2/?
mytruepersonality
be just as physically exhausting as mentally. Its also not something that is mind over mind. You can literally not be able to produce 3/?
johnvilnis
I can't remember how many times I was told that my depression didn't really exist and that I was just making it up.
ArbitraryMorte
Am told daily along with the chronic fibromyalgia being in my head.
Corrodias
Oh boy, you're not going to like when I tell you that Imgur doesn't exist and you're just making me up.
knowmeandsayhello
If you could just pretend to be happy that would make it slightly less awkward for us...
thevortexmaster
whatbuttondoipush
Go get some Zoloft. That shit is great! Gave me nightmares, but I was half lucid dreaming and gave myself a shotgun and had fun.
whatbuttondoipush
Also made my peepee not work so well, but I was able tonget out of bed without pure dread
Cataleast
Same logic could be applied to any emotional state. Can you imagine the reaction to "You're not actually happy. Happiness doesn't exist"?
Illiasa
At this point the number of times i've been told that is equal-to-or-less-than the number of times I've told ppl GTFO
bigblindguy
So many decades of it now... Can't be me making it up, I don't show that kinda commitment for anything else :D
Ryvienna
I'm on my final legs at my current job, and I've just started to spiral. I don't know what to do.
johnvilnis
See your doctor and get a referral to a psychiatrist/psychologist.
fluidexistence
My mom told me to imagine being on a train and to stuff my worries into luggage. Then throw the luggage off the train. IaMfInEnOw.
Axiluvia
I got told growing up that I would be less depressed if I ate less and lost weight! YAY THANKS THAT HELPS SO MUCH. /s
Malachise
Or when someone says "I understand I get sad sometimes too."
UncleMartha
My ex-wife told me I was just lazy. Alternately, she would tell me to go see my therapist and "fix it!" What a cnut.
beanbirbrito
shit hurts! glad you know now it’s batshit bonkers wrong. hope you’re healing my dude
SqueakToTheFamily42
I know it sounds like a trivial thing to a lot of ppl but it sucks. Climbing out that hole is hard but you can do it. You have no choice.
DiningKruger
That's just your schizophrenia.
combatwombat0
Evil.
mackemforever
Did you try going for a run because everybody knows exercise will immediately cure your depression (sarcasm of course)
Fasrill
I get the sarcasm, but for some people it can alleviate the effects of depression through the release of endorphins into the body.
mackemforever
Completely agree that it can help but I've literally had people tell me, days after a suicide attempt, that I just need to exercise more.
ChickenInvaders
Glad you are still here bud. Hope you spoke with a good therapist about it.
whitebbwolf
the Problem is, that after more than a couple of years, its beginning to spread to the partners somehow. humans tend to push back after 1/2
whitebbwolf
feeling that nothing they do will improve their partners situation especially when 1 cannot see the partner helping in the fight to get 2/3
whitebbwolf
better or find good coping mechanisms. That is the worst about Depression. yer paralized but yer partners bears all the weight. That is 3/4
whitebbwolf
not sustainable & at one point partner needs to make sure they themselves survive. Without good support for both AND active participation4/5
whitebbwolf
by the depressed (somehow) sadly the relationships crumble. I hate it. stupid fucking depression. Be safe n excellent to each other. 5/5
TheSongofRiver
I've always explained it as a chemical imbalance in the brain. That my brain doesnt make the happiness hormone.
UncleMartha
I had a boss who - as one does - would ask me how I was doing. I would always say "ok" because that was the truth. She once asked me...
UncleMartha
..."what will it take to get a 'great!' out of you?" I told her, "a radical change in brain chemistry." She quit asking me after that.
TheSongofRiver
Yeah. With depression, people often think ' sad because of something bad' and as soon as you explain that its something brain related, they
TheSongofRiver
finally begin to understand it isn't just a moidswing
NZSheeps
Have you tried not being sad?
UncleMartha
I had a boss who would say shit like that. He would tell me - a man - to smile all the time and eventually I would be happy. I hated him.
CommentBot3000
I hear that sugar in a gas tank improves the mileage, you should put a pound or two of sugar in his gas tank to help him out as a 'thank you' for suggesting you smile more.
NuckingFutts
I got told that it wasn't depression, rather it was the devils and demons... ur not alone, keep fighting for ur ideal life
MagpiSpaceStar
Ideal life, that really struck me as that's what I'm fighting for now studying working so hard trying to heal all 4 my ideal life thank you
NuckingFutts
You're welcome friend
ThomasThundersword
pro tip, if 3 buff dudes (or chicks) in flannel or leathers strapping you to a chair inside a circle of weird symbols in an abandoned house
ThomasThundersword
sprinkling you with some weird tap water and chanting some latin, Didn’t make you spew up some funky black smoke... it’s not demons.
ThomasThundersword
and it could well be depression... however if that *Does* work, then it was a demon. now it’s just PTSD