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⌈ Secret Post #2319 ⌋

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[The Hunger Games]

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[Labyrinth]

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Wow.

That really resonated with me far more than I wanted to admit. I'm sure it's not the same for everyone, but... yeah.

That kind of messed up my morning after I read it. :( To have someone point out and explain perfectly what is wrong with me. Then I just sat around being depressed and thinking about how I'm always going to be stuck in that numb nothing room because I don't have the option of going to a doctor.

It sounds stupid, but I never made the connection between my not really enjoying things outside of logically knowing how to react and being depressed. I just thought I was broken and then I was also depressed, but now I realize that even my "non-depressed" moods are really just a lighter form up depression. I'm kind of amazed it took this long and a random blogger for me to make the connection.

The timing of this post was really weird for me. I randomly checked her website yesterday just in time to catch her pre-post.

Luckily I don't believe in signs. ...mostly.

Also, yaaay!

It resonated with half of the internet. That says a lot.

After reading the new post, I wanted to go back and read some of her earlier ones. It's so crushing that the first depression post follows five months after the excited one about writing a book.

Oh, I know, right? I've always wondered if that fell through and it played a part in triggering her depression.

Or just the pressure of it all. I know that's happened to me before, success triggering a massive depressive episode of failure.

Small world...a friend just showed this to me this afternoon in the library! I really love this website! :)

Yeah, I had a shit week/month emotionally, so I can definitely relate. I feel like I am finding my way out of it in a different way, but it's helpful to see someone explain so clearly what it's like to be unhappy even when you're trying your damndest to do positive things to get better.

Oh wow.

Yeah, a lot except the suicidal parts. But I can never be sure if I avoided suicidal thoughts when I was younger through being well enough or just because I felt an overwhelming obligation not to kill myself and make my family feel guilty for the rest of their lives.

Same. I've never quite been to that edge. But I did understand, at least a little, that one panel where she said something about not necessarily wanting to kill herself but wanting to somehow be dead.

I feel like she really nailed it, in terms of subjective experience. I was also really glad to hear from her. She'd crossed my mind once in a while and I hoped she was doing better. But yeah, wonderful post.

Didn't quite resonate with me as much as I know it did others (my own personal issues are ones of anxiety, and I often feel like I'm overflowing with my own emotions), but wow it was powerful stuff. Really interesting, especially since this feels so foreign to me; I can't even imagine just not feeling and being numb, and she did a really good job of explaining things.

idk, i barely slogged on to the part about the kernel of corn on the floor, because it seemed so full of cliches i'd heard everywhere already, yet the loud colors and crude drawings made it seem really in your face, like someone was screaming at you and shaking their finger under your nose.

and i used to like hyperbole and a half :(

Everyone keeps posting links to this and images from this and I kinda don't want to see it anymore. Yeah it was an honest and real portrayal of depression but it also made me feel really bad and I don't want to think about that shit

I don't like to use the word "trigger" cause it's been misused and overused but yeah, that was pretty much it for me

Me too. Somehow I feel more depressed after reading that.

Definitely, I mean I just started therapy again for the first time in seven years and I feel like I'm getting my bipolar under control and then I saw that. It doesn't help that like half the internet keeps reposting and I'm not mad because I know their intentions are good but it's still putting me in a bad place

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-10 06:11 (UTC) - Expand

I feel the same way.

Actually, when I saw her first post last year, I was in an awful mental place and it really resonated with me. But now, I'm doing well and have hope for the future and I just feel like I don't need this in my life.

Agreed, it reminded and brought back a whole lot of memories and feelings I'd rather forget.

It's been all over my dashboard today and I kinda want to saviour it

I was shocked by how well it summed up my own personal experience.

If that's what depression is really like, then that post tells me I don't have it, or I only have a super-mild version, because damn.

Although I've definitely had the experience of having to think really hard about approximating the right facial expressions and reactions to people, and alienating them when it doesn't quite work the way I hope it will. That's not depression, though, just me not understanding social cues.

I don't think there is one definitive experience of depression, where you're not depressed unless your symptoms are exactly like that. Everyone is different.

darkmanifest - 2013-05-10 03:04 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2013-05-10 18:24 (UTC) - Expand

I think the thing you have to remember is that it's a really subjective experience being written about, and it's not the be all and end all definition of depression. I don't think the author is trying to say 'this is what depression is like' but rather 'this is what it's like for me'.

darkmanifest - 2013-05-10 03:01 (UTC) - Expand

Depression can take very different forms. I didn't really see myself in the post either, but I know I am depressed. The author seems to have had a pretty severe case, though.

It's been all over the place.

Didn't really resonate with me, or maybe it did. The lack of control on the emotions, but then remembering my depression episodes makes me really angry and the end result is I don't like talking about it at all.

But I got it in an off kilter way that gave me the creepy crawlies for reminding me of it.

/reflexive lip curl