DUMP TRUMP

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@Nittany Discord  
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@Ebalosus  

 
This!

You know from the clueless look on that pony’s face, I’m not sure if this is pro-Trump or making fun of him.

@Pagan  
Let’s agree to disagree, basically.

@Dave33333  
I ask myself what’s wrong with my generation a lot. People seem to go crazy at the slightest provocation.
 
 
@Pagan  
Good idea. Let’s stop posting now. Expressing an opinion isn’t worth being flayed alive.

No gods don’t let this shit start up again everyone please shut up and let this thread die.

@Background Pony #C8DA  
No. I didn’t mean that. Jeez.
 
This is what is wrong with MY generation.

@Dave33333  
So, now you’re a heretic if you don’t like Trump? sigh I can’t win, can I?

@Background Pony #C8DA  
Nevertheless, Trump has roaring momentum. Unlike McCain.

@Eeveeinheat  
Talking seems to help. This person doesn’t have many friends, so she really needs someone on her side. Even if I can’t take away her depression entirely, I don’t think being kind is a wasted effort.

@Ebalosus  
I remember 2008… shudder If you told someone you supported McCain, they’d cry “racist” and imply “burn the wicked heretic, for no one who doesn’t love Obama should be allowed to live”.

@Ebalosus  
You should have read the comments that’s basically what everyone agreed on that they are all terrible in the end.

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You fucking people Americans. Hey remember the last guy who wanted you to “vote for change you can believe in”? What makes you think Bernie or Donald will be any different?

@Background Pony #C8DA  
“I talk to the person and let them know they’re appreciated”
 
Which is a nice sentiment, but doesn’t really help someone with chronic depression, because at that point it’s irrational, and not really effected by external stimuli that much. It’ll help them if their depression is just unhappiness, as in literally caused by external stimuli, but if it’s chronic, as in lasted long enough where whatever caused it doesn’t matter anymore and it becomes self-sustaining, then nothing short of a full physical change in the person’s synaptic connections will fix it. It’s pretty much a flaw in our neurology, a positive feedback loop of the wrong synapses strengthening.
 
As such, the depression is there regardless of your actual happiness or feelings, and it lingers even if you are feeling happy in the moment. This also means, like Nittany said, that it’s chemical, or even set in the structure of the brain as ‘normal’ if the depression lasts long. In short, you become ‘addicted’ to the depression feeling.
 
There can be days where the depression seems to ‘lift’, pretty much at random, as in you feel slightly normal, but it always comes back at the end of the day, and usually worse than ever.

@Background Pony #C8DA  
I agree that some psychs are bogus and like to turn everything into a mental illness, but some mental illnesses are real. I know that I’ve had strange and irrational worries and fears that can only be explained as a chemical imbalance. Furthermore, I can’t function without medication anymore, because when I’ve been forced to stop meds, my mood takes such a sharp dive and my anxiety takes such a sharp increase that I have to be hospitalized. So something is amiss in my head.
 
So the science of mental illnesses is debatable, but they do exist. It’s just finding out where the normal mood spectrum lies, treating those that do have problems, and helping them live normal lives without treating them as lazy or sissies for having real problems.
 
Personally, I’d rather wake up tomorrow and not have panic attacks about jobs so I can earn an honest buck, but I can’t, so I have to make the best of my situation so I can recover and maybe one day earn an income like a normal person.

@Nittany Discord  
I don’t mean to be unsympathetic. Living with that kind of thing must be horrible, and impossible to get over immediately. It’s easy to mix up medical and situational cases, though. I know someone who has been diagnosed with depression, and I’ve never told them “just get over it”. I talk to the person and let them know they’re appreciated. Compassion can often be the best therapy. I don’t know if this person’s case is due to “a chemical imbalance in the brain”, which is to say, medical, or if it’s because the person was horribly abused in childhood and they’ve had many unfortunate things happen to them… but yet their mood improves with pills. It’s hard to tell.
 
Personally, I’ve had some really bad experiences with psychiatrists. I question the profession as a whole. I think they misdiagnose and overdiagnose and they don’t give the impression of caring about their patients that much. Paying someone to listen to my problems just doesn’t appeal to me, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with me… Life just stinks sometimes and some unhappy reactions to it are natural. It just seems like these people are trying to make EVERYTHING a mental disorder, which is nonsense.

@Eeveeinheat  
I hope you find something, then, and I hope you hang on. Major depression and anxiety is a living hell at its worst. It’s a dark place I never want to return to.
 
I hope you find something that works.

@Nittany Discord  
Nothing as of yet has worked.

@Eeveeinheat  
Are you getting treatment for it? There are treatments, and I can totally vouch for cognitive behavioral therapy and meds. It worked for me and made me able to reduce some of my anxiety.

@Eeveeinheat  
I am really sorry to hear that.
 
I wish I could do something to help you.

@Background Pony #C8DA  
Easier said than done (not thinking about anxiety). It’s all due to a physical issue, not a state of mind. That’s what’s hard to get across to people that don’t have these issues. It takes years of treatment and meds to get to a decent level, but it never goes away. I may never be able to work due to my issues, or maybe I can work part-time, but I can’t just stop thinking about anxiety issues nor will they ever go away completely.
 
I know that worrying about worry makes worrying worse, and I’ve gone to therapy to help fix that. I still need more therapy, though, and it may take years for me to get in a better state. I just hope you understand that instead of being another “Get over it you sissy” type that piss me off to no end.

@Nittany Discord  
Ah, I know the feeling. Major depression and anxiety is why I dropped out of highschool, even though I planned on studying various sciences. Absolutely crushed any drive I had to be anything in life, and all joy I had for learning vanished.