Clinical depression is an ILLNESS. You cant just suck it up and get over it, telling your depressed loved one to stop moping and look at the bright side doesnt help. You may think you would be happy if you just had fame and fortune but if you arent happy NOW more attention and more THINGS wont do it. Stop attaching stigma to mental illness!!! There is HELP! there are treatments! For the love of Gods green earth, if your arm was broken you wouldnt suffer at home while people told you to just look at the bright side! You would go to the doctor and get help. You cant help it if you develop mental illness any more than you can help it if you get the flu. You wouldn;t tell someone with EBOLA to just stop feeling so haemorrhagey and to get over it, would you??? Depression and other mental illnesses can be treated, with varying levels of success, BUT!.... It can get better. I promise you it can. People all over the world are shocked and heartbroken over the death a person who many would consider to have had everything a person could want, but who was still so depressed that he likely ended his own life. he is proof that happiness cant be found in things, and money, and fame. Virtually every county in America (and many more areas across the world) has a community mental health agency. They are there to help. Dont be afraid to ask for it, for yourself or for a loved one who can be at risk. Please let Robin Williams legacy be this: a lifetime of work that made people laugh, and a world full of people educated into how they can get help for depression and mental illness.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:14:23 +0000
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