Sometimes it takes a lot of energy to do little things!
Just because Im not feeling up to it today doesnt mean Im lazy or unambitious or whatnot.
Sometimes, Im just drained mentally and emotionally.
Taisiia Stupak
1.I dont get to choose what I am anxious about.
2.Sometimes it takes a lot of energy to do little things!!!
Just because Im not feeling up to it today doesnt mean Im lazy or unambitious or whatnot.
Sometimes, Im just drained mentally and emotionally.
4.I dont have to be crying 24/7 to still be clinically depressed.
5.I swear I AM trying.
My best looks different than yours.
6.Do what you love!
is a useless statement when you dont love anything.
Same with What do you enjoy?
or Do what makes you happy!
If you actually enjoy things or experience happiness were on whole different levels.
It really just stings when I get garbage like that said to me.
Like thanks for reminding me I cant experience joy or anything close to it.
because youll literally ruin everything.
If Im having a nice day, dont talk about my pain, dont remind me.
Because its still there, just hidden, so dont bring that up.
8.Mental disorders are not always beautiful or sympathetic like you see in the movies.
People who have mental disorders will do things that are annoying, scary, disgusting, or disturbing.
Dont expect us to behave normally with a small side of sadness.
Thats not how mental disorders work.
And if we do something that doesnt make sense to you, dont tell us, Youre being crazy!
Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
Of course Im acting crazy.
Did you think mental disorders made people act normal and rational?
9.I dont take anti-depressants to be happy, I take them to not want to kill myself.
Likewise if someone doesnt want medication, no matter how much you think they need it support their decision.
11.I desperately want to not be difficult, but Im probably always going to be difficult to love.
12.OCD is not anything like what you think it is.
Its not a preference for order, or a need to clean, or a desire to alphabetize.
My mind is broken.
Youll regret that when theyre gone.
I couldnt imagine not speaking to my father/mother.
You only get one parent, you know.
Why dont you call and make up?
14.People with mental health issues are good at hiding how they feel.
Usually these people use humor to put up with thoughts and feelings.
So next time you hear someone joking about depression, they probably have experienced it.
16.Suicide is not an option people want but its an option people will take because it is an option.
18.If I say Im feeling too anxious about something, dont ask why.
Sometimes it comes out of nowhere, I cant help it.
19.Sometimes I dont reach out because a voice inside my head says everyone hates me.
Being tired psychologically is just as worse as being tired physically.
Telling us why we should just look at something your particular way isnt helpful, and its exhausting.
Mental disorders are like physical disorders that you cant see.
No, there is a very real barrier.
Just because you cant see it doesnt mean its not there.
Us recognizing that there is a barrier is not using it as an excuse, its being realistic.
22.Mental health disorders are not black and white.
There is a large spectrum and affects people differently.
23.Dont judge a book by their cover.
You dont know what their story is behind their actions or words.
25.Dont say, Be thankful!
Or Ive been through much worse!
26.Happiness is NOT a choice.
Prayer does NOT work.
I wish it was, but with clinical depression, nothing is easy.
Its not a state of mind.
Its a debilitating illness.
Why cant I have that?
Just something as basic as that will never happen for me.
28.Im an Iraq Veteran with PTSD, c’mon stop trying to make me talk about that shit.
If I want to talk, I will.
It may or may not be with you, thats my decision to make.
29.Dont feel bad for feeling happy.
Acting sad around me is not going to make me happy.
30.Dont try and tell me that everyone deals with depression or anxiety or adhd.
Me having an anxiety attack and you getting nervous before a big test are two very different things.
31.Social anxiety: Why do people without it feel the need to say, Wow youre so quiet!
You dont talk much etc.
Thanks pal, now Im spiraling thinking that everyone thinks Im weird.
32.Just because you’ve got the option to do it doesnt mean I can.
33.It can happen to you.
Like pressing a button, it can happen to you.
It might happen to you.
Were still people, we can still love, feel happiness, laugh at jokes and genuinely smile.
The voice isnt always there.
35.You dont have to be underweight to be considered anorexic.
36.I dont need you to understand what Im dealing with, because its not yours to understand.
What I need is for you accept it.
37.I got called lazy by teachers all the time growing up because I had severe anxiety.
It happens frequently with kids who have anxiety or ADD/ADHD.
c’mon quit doing that.
Most 1st graders arent actually slacker-anarchists.
38.Posting a status with just a heart emoji does nothing to help.
Posting a status about how your door is always open does not help.
Basically stop using other peoples mental health struggles and disorders as a way to get followers and likes.
39.Empathizing and understanding can be done without a direct link to mental illness.
just stop telling me about your bi-polar brother that self-medicates with alcohol or your crazy schizophrenic aunt.
Youre only making me feel like thats how you see people with mental illness.
I have anxiety, Im on medication and I see a psych.
Just be cool with it.
40.Stop telling me how I should think.
Its not that easy.
I wouldnt want to have to deal with me either.
That not only irritates me, but makes me feel even more out of place than I already do.
43.PTSD happens in more than just soldiers returning from war.
44.You cant fix me.
Dont feel bad about it.
And dont venture to get me to do stuff Ive said I dont want to.
You dont know my issues better than me.
45.Sometimes needing space is just that, needing quiet and time and space.
Its how I process and cope and recover.
You dont need to fuss on me, unless I ask or something.
46.like think before you speak.
Words can be so damaging to a fragile mind.
Sometimes jokes can be hard to hear if they have a relation to trauma.
47.Just because you like to clean or keep things in order does not make you OCD.
Im personally sick of those stereotypes.
Depression is weird like that.
venture to at least learn enough about the disorder to identify the signs of depression.
The best thing you might do, is to simply listen to them when theyre ready to talk.
Youre not hosting an intervention.
Whatever you do, dont ever encourage someone whos suffering in silence to just cheer up!
Definitely dont venture to force them to hang out or go somewhere they dont want to be.
50.Its not obvious that everyone struggles.
