To everyone who knows someone with manic or severe clinical depression (and if youre on my friends list, you do) please watch this film. “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” Ive found that its of some help to think of ones moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather: Here are some obvious things about the weather: Its real. You cant change it by wishing it away. If its dark and rainy it really is dark and rainy and you cant alter it. It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row. BUT It will be sunny one day. It isnt under ones control as to when the sun comes out, but come out it will. One day. It really is the same with ones moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe that they are illusions. They are real. Depression, anxiety, listlessness - these are as real as the weather - AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONES CONTROL. Not ones fault. BUT They will pass: they really will.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 19:12:16 +0000
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