Re: Those moods... I hate them
As someone who also has had bouts of rather severe clinical depression, I agree with what Dark is saying.
In fact, if I knew a couple of the people who responded personally, and they told me some of the things that were said here, I would have been rather offended. As it stands, I'm able to detach emotionally from such comments because they're on a forum, and, besides, I'm currently in a fairly stable place at the moment as far as my depression is concerned.
But one thing I personally can't stand is when people hound me continuously for a reason as to why I feel that way when I'm particularly down. I've been told, "oh, come on, you don't just feel that way for no reason!" So, depending on how persistent the individual in question is, and, trust me, I've known people who really don't let the subject drop, I have to use my limited energy to try and pull something out of the air to justify how I feel. All that does is m
ake me feel even more horrible, not to mention harassed.
Almost as bad are the people who, like Dark said, insist that you should just grow up and stop being attention seeking. It's attitudes like that which cause lots of people to never ask for help, because, let's face it, we've all done things in our hormone-addled adolescences that were overdramatic, pathetic, and downright stupid. So to be compared to that over and over again as an adult is beyond humiliating.
Somewhere on the internet, there are lists that have been compiled where people wrote the best and worst things to say to a person who is clinically depressed. And while these lists are a bit trite, and some of it will probably make you say, "duh, that's common sense", they are worth reading if you really want to understand how depression affects people. If anyone is interested, I can probably hunt down those links; they should be on the Wayback machine, if nothing else.
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