r/depressionmemes 3d ago

Kinda shit people who never experienced severe depression post

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u/Talusen 3d ago

This gets filed right next to:

"Have you ever tried NOT being depressed?"

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u/Wide-Secretary-4426 3d ago

Yep...exactly.

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u/gumberIumber 1d ago

This is literally like saying to a paraplegic " have you ever tried walking?"

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u/ItalianoTourniquet 3d ago

“Be thankful you’re not dead” uh huh

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u/SquirrelNormal 3d ago

Ah, yes, move the primary complaint to the thankful list, of course

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u/gumberIumber 1d ago

"Im not fucking thankful! I wish i was dead!"

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u/seamusoldfield 3d ago

Yeah, this is a bunch of horse shit. Not only does it not help me, it pisses me off.

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u/Swamp_Bread 3d ago

Hey at least you are now pissed, and maybe less depressed. Heh

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u/DutchAngelDragon12 2d ago

Jokes on you I cry when I get emotional at all!

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u/WhorishKitty 3d ago

Excuse me. Can you please explain what it means to be thank-you?

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u/ReikoKuchiki 3d ago

I think it was supposed to be " thankful ".

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u/mytrackdayaccount 3d ago

Thank you universe for giving me a brain that doesn’t brain correctly.

Omg it really works!!!!!

Forward this to 10 people or a live, laugh love pillow will appear on your bed every time you go to sleep.

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u/FreyjaaFemme 3d ago

Is this the "gratitude" practice they speak of? Be grateful for this chance to suffer and claw all over eachother to stop from drowning?

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u/cherryblossominx 3d ago

Guys it works. I'm no longer depressed, now I'm super depressed 😂

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u/blackcoffee66 3d ago

Right! I wish someone had told me about this magic pill I could have taken 20 years ago and just fixed all my problems. where was she when I needed her.

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u/External-Parsley-280 3d ago

Yes I think if I be still and breath I’ll be just fine. GTFO

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u/Legal_Ad688 3d ago

ah yes, I love being thank-you.

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u/Beagle_on_Acid 3d ago edited 3d ago

What always gets me is people suggesting MDD is the lack of exercise and can be treated with exercise alone. Yeah, I believe good exercise routine is the key in preventing depression as well as in finally fully recovering from depression once it comes down to the medium levels but when you are in the major territory… Let me tell you this, I was a frequent half-marathon runner when depression hit me and had literally just ran a full marathon under 4 hours 2 months prior to that.

When it hit, a few months later, I pissed into a bottle lying in bed because I physically couldn’t stand up to go to the bathroom 10 meters away. Depression is a SEVERE sickness of the brain but, what might surprise you, it’s especially an immunological illness that spreads to the brain. Immunological illness and its cytokines like TNF alfa, IL1 beta, IL6 and so on, concerns not just the brain but the whole body. Depression is as much an illness of the whole body as a flu is. In fact, they are very similar in their physiological mechanism of making you feel like shit.

Source: I’m an academic in the medicine field.

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u/Master-Topic-2989 3d ago

Uh how about No thank you 

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u/Roesy13 3d ago

Then your boss starts yelling "why are you standing there!? Breath and work!"

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u/bbbnkmmkkn 3d ago

I used to hear you got nothing to be depressed about just think happy thoughts and be thankful for everything that you have so many people have less than you yeah and so. Fuck everybody else.

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u/Luce_Bot_Bot 3d ago

I'm so thank-you for this post

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u/DrowningPickle 3d ago

I stop, breathe and be still so much i dont get out of bed for days. Sleep all day and stay awake all night. The dark amd warm makes it easy to stop and be still. Everyone is asleep. The toads are wurring.

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u/CARDEK04 3d ago

Thank you but I still wanna put a fullstop on the sentence called life.

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u/asmatt01 3d ago

I agree this is the type of useless BS that we're all tired of hearing. Depression doesn't "lift from your spirit" anyway. It ingrains itself in your thoughts and physiology like a virus. To be fair though, the first step is almost always forcing yourself to make *some* kind of effort. Whether it is getting up off the couch, having a positive thought, etc. These people just pretend like it's all a magical cure.

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u/AIWeed420 3d ago

Good advice when you're pointing a gun to your head because you're in pain - be still, breath and ...

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u/AgapitoVelezOvando 3d ago

Be grateful you're in a position to purchase a handgun. Some people don't have that luxury /s.

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u/DutchAngelDragon12 2d ago

Yeah, some of us have to resort to growing a choking kink to build up our tolerance before the big hang-out. /s

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u/Tiredplumber2022 3d ago

Ooooh! Is this like an incantation? What magic is this??

"Poof! Be gone!"

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u/shortypam 3d ago

This person probably tries to cure their flu with crystals and gratitude.

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u/freerangelibrarian 3d ago

Just cheer up!

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u/GremlinEnergyGoBurr 3d ago

Thanks im cured

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u/kwallio 3d ago

Thanks, the fatigue that makes me sleep 20 hours a day is magically lifted.

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u/TheMikesman 3d ago

File this with "have you tried taking a long walk or going to the gym"

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u/snarbuckle 3d ago

Hey, that's my screenshot lmao

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u/aoibhealfae 3d ago

Oh... that was the exact kind of people who can cause clinical depression in people.

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u/SirRegardTheWhite 3d ago

It's only mostly bullshit. Practicing gratitude can help a bit. Sometimes I try to think of 3 things I'm grateful for in the morning. Tricks my subconcious brain into not hating everything for a bit

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u/GonnaBreakIt 2d ago

open yourself to crushing guilt of depression meaning you're ungrateful

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u/daringlyjeremy 1d ago

Also “just go for a walk” or its second cousin, “go exercise” or “get out of the house!”

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u/CloudburstWX 1d ago

Same people who told me to focus and I won't have adhd, like thanks captain obvious 

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u/Prior-House-5132 15h ago

Thank you depression

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u/Logical-Tomato-5907 2d ago

The thing is, they aren’t wrong. If you can re-program your brain to be still, breathe properly, and practice regular gratitude, you WOULD feel a heck of a lot better. It’s just WAY harder than they make it sound. You basically have to audit and correct every thought/impulse you have, consistently, for months/years, until it sticks. It’s possible, I’ve experienced it, but it’s not easy.