What I will say is that Depression is like your brain catching the flu. Just like if you caught the flu you wouldn’t be able to do what you need to do. When your brain has the flu it can’t do what it needs to do. Part of what your brain needs to do is to rationally assess the situation you are in. If your brain has the flu it can’t do that. So things like punching your own tickets seem like a good idea, when rationally it often isn’t the case.
Just like getting over the flu, the brain needs to rest to recover.
Both people who have a good life and a bad life get depressed. The problem the meme is pointing out is the people who have a bad life will not only have a harder time getting the ability to rest their brain, but also people, for no rational reason, assume the worst of people with bad lives. And assume they’re just faking their depression or something. They’re not, depression affects everyone. It’s just easier to get it and harder to get rid of it if you have a bad life.
Ok, I have about ten minutes before this migraine crucifies me and I’m spending them unwisely replying to you.
Me having an option for euthanasia and the advice that life doesn’t get better, in my personal undiagnosed autism starter pack…
Is not me claiming to be the voice of all autistic people and stating that every autistic person should kill themselves because their lives are worthless and won’t improve. I never even implied anything like that.
And my starter pack contents were also not me saying I’m about to off myself either.
My starter pack contained advice and an option. You provided everything else to this discussion.
I get that you were probably trying to help but deciding that what I wrote actually had to mean something else, is, no offense, very neurotypical of you in an autism forum.
What I will say is that Depression is like your brain catching the flu. Just like if you caught the flu you wouldn’t be able to do what you need to do. When your brain has the flu it can’t do what it needs to do. Part of what your brain needs to do is to rationally assess the situation you are in. If your brain has the flu it can’t do that. So things like punching your own tickets seem like a good idea, when rationally it often isn’t the case.
Just like getting over the flu, the brain needs to rest to recover.
Both people who have a good life and a bad life get depressed. The problem the meme is pointing out is the people who have a bad life will not only have a harder time getting the ability to rest their brain, but also people, for no rational reason, assume the worst of people with bad lives. And assume they’re just faking their depression or something. They’re not, depression affects everyone. It’s just easier to get it and harder to get rid of it if you have a bad life.
Ok, I have about ten minutes before this migraine crucifies me and I’m spending them unwisely replying to you.
Me having an option for euthanasia and the advice that life doesn’t get better, in my personal undiagnosed autism starter pack…
Is not me claiming to be the voice of all autistic people and stating that every autistic person should kill themselves because their lives are worthless and won’t improve. I never even implied anything like that.
And my starter pack contents were also not me saying I’m about to off myself either.
My starter pack contained advice and an option. You provided everything else to this discussion.
I get that you were probably trying to help but deciding that what I wrote actually had to mean something else, is, no offense, very neurotypical of you in an autism forum.
Oh fuck I am retarded. I misread the intention of this post. Thank you, and I am soo sorry. I will edit my first post to be clear I am an idiot.