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Originally Posted by pylon
"I'm suffering depression because I hate my job." This is the one that bothers me. Clinical chemical depression is physically painful. It costs you your will to live, and you will spend nights fighting the urge to end your life. You don't go party it up at the pub right after work until the wee hours. You go home, stare at your wall, and cry for no bloody reason. You try and sleep every second you possibly can so you can shut your mind off.
If you have genuinely been in that dark of a place, you know, when someone is bs'ing or looking for attention. There is a genuine misunderstanding of what depression truly is. Being upset, or unhappy or not getting your way with something isn't clinical depression. And it bothers me when people think it is. It is such an incredibly misunderstood condition, I think people coining the term to describe themselves as depressed, when they are not, waters down, the importance of studying it. Because when someone feels being mildly unhappy is actual depression, they cannot understand how badly people that are genuinely afflicted by it are actually suffering.
My words were poorly chosen, I agree. But my point is valid. Once you've been there, it gives you an entirely new perpsective.
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I am hesitant to judge people who might be "abusing" it because I know that when someone pokes their head into my life asking whats up or something similar I very quickly will respond with a go to excuse that I know will be accepted at face value with little further probing...such as "work sucks and it is draining". I wouldn't necessarily judge people entirely on what they say. Someone who is in a deep depression isn't always willing to share either. There is a lot of inner turmoil/fighting/shame/guilt/you name it that is standing in the way of talking about it.
Some people abuse it for sure. People abuse everything to some point. This is one issue where it might be easy to perceive wrongly and it can be pretty damaging to lump someone who is trying to throw on a brave face or facade and think that they are just "pretending for kicks".