[ SECRET POST #2319 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2319 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Slum Cat - Ernest Seton Thompson]


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[Mass Effect]


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[The Hunger Games]


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[Ib]


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[Family Guy]


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[The West Wing]


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[Labyrinth]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 016 secrets from Secret Submission Post #331.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[darkmanifest]

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.

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[darkmanifest]

It's not that the post made me think I must be a-okay because I don't share all her symptoms, but that actually my symptoms might be stemming from another cause from hers because the results are so drastically different.

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[(Anonymous)]

I think I see what you mean--and it might have helped you narrow down the real possible causes of your distress, which can only be good.

For myself, the comic kind of rubbed me the wrong way because like the other person who responded to you, I'm depressed, and yet that's not my experience of depression. So I didn't want you to take away the impression that your symptoms were trivial because they weren't exactly like the ones depicted there.

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[deenaa]

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'.

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[darkmanifest]

Oh, no, I didn't think it was definitive down to the last detail, but her experience is so far and away unlike anything I've ever felt that reading it wasn't invalidating for me, it was revelatory, because I've struggled to define my issues, and this suggested to me that they might be much more about anxiety than anything else.

Re: Hyperbole and a Half

[charming_stranger]

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.