YOU ARE NOT DEPRESSED, STOP IT!

[0rganism]

25. uplifting words, not representative of my battle with depression

i was diagnosed with psychotic depression about 20 years ago, it was not something i could cure with "talk therapy", and it took medication to quiet the voices in my head. about those voices? they were every bit as loud and real as if they came from someone standing next to me, they yelled horrible things at me and cut me down every time i did anything less than perfectly, and when, with the help of the medicine, they finally shut the fuck up, i was able to start getting shit back together that had been crumbling around me for years before i even understood that i was sick. oh yes, i thought having voices screaming at me inside my head was "normal" because it was normal to me. it wasn't until i saw how much the self-abuse was poisoning everything i tried to do that i turned to professionals for help and fixed that problem. it took years of medication and therapy.

OTOH, i know what he's saying, i've been sad and down many times since then, and if that's what the problem is, ideas like the perspective change he talks about can really help. but sometimes there's a lot more to it. not always, sometimes.