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Malissa! :D asked in HealthMental Health · 7 years ago

It makes me angry when people pretend to be depressed?

I have depression and anxiety. At one time, I quit college, couldn't get a job, felt like I didn't want to wake up in the morning. I couldn't cope with reality. I was angry, irritated, scared, hopeless, sad, and a million other emotions at once. Every moment was torment. That was anxiety, that was depression and it was crippling. I am taking medication now. I know this one girl, she lives with her parents, she works, but doesn't pay bills. She is always posting pictures about her cosplay and her new projects and how she seems really happy and able to live life pretty normally. And yet, she tries to literally brag about how she has this horrible depression. It seems like she is full of ****. If you really have depression, there is a slim chance that you can get out of bed...let alone get up, make full costumes, prance around in them and go out into public. Am I right, or am I being a jerk? I know that many might say, "everyone deals with depression differently." Well, she doesn't seem like she is depressed or deeply crippling depressed or anxious like she says...or she wouldn't be living life so easily.

Update:

What makes me even more irritated, is that she outright said that she doesn't want to take medication for her "Severe," depression because taking medication is exisiting..but not living.

I think that my medication is the only thing that helps me to be a normal human being. I can now cope with reality and I can get up in the morning and she has the odacity to say that it causes a person to EXISIT, instead of LIVE. How the hell does she know?

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  • 7 years ago
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    She might be masking her depression. Just let people be, try not to let it bother you so much there's more important things to focus your energy on.

  • 7 years ago

    People pick those who are weak and those who are not able to give quick answer,(Means those who respond slow they pick only them) and they try to pretend them in front of others, it is really bad, You want to be more active or change yourself so that they can't pretend you.

  • 7 years ago

    I understand where you're coming from. I have severe depression too and it takes me so much effort to even get out of bed in the afternoon (I finally get up at about 1pm), I'm on very strong medication. I don't go out of the house unless it's to go shopping (with my carer with me) or the doctors etc. I hate these who say they are depressed because they're having a bit of a bad day or the like.

    Source(s): Personal experience.
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