Rat's Saucy Nest

lunaismaiwaifu:

ratofponi:

It’s somewhat long, so my answer is after the read more.

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Rattadoc’s pep talk is pretty fantastic, I don’t have anything to add to it (not that anyone asked me to add anything to it), but one thing I want to share is that depression can’t always be cured with positive thoughts and a positive view in life alone - in a lot of cases, you need to seek professional help and maybe medication as a part of that. 

It’s a shitty disease that eats away at your soul because even if you choose to be positive and change your lifestyle and things are looking like they’re improving - wham, it hits you and then all of your effort is rewarded with more feelings of inadequacy, because you’re trying harder and better and yet nothing seems to improve.

Truth is, if you’re feeling like this, it might be time to see a professional about it. 

I’ve been trying to do this for years, so I can stop feeling miserable myself. After suffering from on-and-off depression the last… what, 10 years? Every time I’ve felt like I had broken through, that I’d found my motivation, that I finally beat what was holding me down, it whacked me again not long after and it left me more and more jaded, more and more helpless. 

So seek help if you think it’s something you can’t beat alone. There’s no shame in that - it took me way too long to to understand that.

Good words!

I should have mentioned more about depression and not just glanced over it in one sentence. Depression is a very sneaky and serious disease. And like limw says, there’s nothing to be ashamed about, seeking professional help is nothing bad and is in no way admitting defeat. And depression doesn’t mean that you’re constantly sad, more often than not it shows itself by a lack of interest and a lack of caring about things instead. I know of cases where people were surprised by the depression diagnosis they got, but in hindsight it made sense to them. In my opinion talking to a professional is a pretty good idea and won’t hurt.