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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Do you think that works, though, for most people? What I mean is, if you're the average person who's never struggled with mental illness, never having been the woman in that video, do you think if someone hears the sigh at the end of that call that it resonates with them? I'm honestly not sure.
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Its not going to change minds, but certainly will dispel the idea that calling in sick is no big deal to depressed people, and thus causes resentment in co-workers.. I mean you feel even worse after making that call, or sending that email, shame, anger, frustration because you feel guilty you can't just shake it off and go to work.
There are other videos I tend to use, like the sad dog one done by the World Health Organization:
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Further question: there are always a bunch of people who really feel that they have some sort of condition, but it's "undiagnosed", which basically means "self-diagnosed". A bunch of them are probably right, many others are probably not. How do we feel about this? There are people who have received treatment for bipolar disorder or anxiety and gone through years of therapy and drug treatment to try to deal with these conditions, doesn't this behaviour minimize that struggle? But at the same time, a lot of these people probably do need help and due to how much harder it is to get consistent treatment for these things, just haven't yet, so just dismissing them also seems problematic. I hope I'm explaining this well.
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Well I was a person who went un-diagnosed for a good 10 years, until I reached a point where I had to check myself in to an emergency room. So for a long time I blamed myself for how I felt and spent a lot of energy trying to hide that side of me from others, very few knew how rough it was during that decade and I was ashamed by how I felt and very hesitant to think it was a medical condition because I had been taught that depression was just a weak excuse for people too lazy to work, etc..
I am sure some pretty normally healthy people might make claims they are medically depressed, but its going to be very few I bet, no one wants to be known as having mental health issues, so its not like people will pretend or self diagnose themselves with something that has such a stigma to it. But there are certainly some.
My worry is the people who are like I was 10 years ago, before I sought help, they are suffering when they could be living a much better life is they got the help that they need.