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Yeah, I'll agree with what everyone already said upthread. You completely missed the point of that, which was not to say that she couldn't "play" anymore, it's just that the way she had always played now seemed....false. Unreal. Uninteresting.

I've suffered from extremely severe depression for almost half of my lifetime (and wow, does that realization feel like a kick in the teeth. holy shit.) and that post made me cry sad sad tears because I have never seen a better description of the hell that is long-term depression. How many times did I tell my mother "I don't want to kill myself, I just want to stop being alive"? I can't even count.

The dead fish bit really got me, though. And I think that's pretty much what's happened here. She was trying to tell you about her dead fish and all you heard was that she needed help finding her totally-still-alive fish. And you got annoyed. "How can she not find her fish? She must be really stupid to lose some fish in a tiny tank like that." When really that is not what she's saying at all.

Edited 2013-05-25 23:51 (UTC)

exactly. i immediately shared this with my mom because it was the only thing i felt so very accurately describes my experiences with depression. everyone is different with depression. some depressed people may not relate to this. but i do. especially the "i dont want to kill myself, just be dead" except it was getting to the point where i realized nothing was going to happen to me to cause a death and i would just have to take it into my own hands and-- yeah. i guess the entire article made me relapse back to when i was at my worst, for a bit.

I posted the comic to my FB with THIS - THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR ME!! I've lived with depression for most of my life (a melancholy child and full fledged depression setting in at 14) - I was like THIS IS WHAT I FEEL LIKE WHEN I TRY TO EXPLAIN IT TO PEOPLE... *sigh*

I didn't really relate to the comic tremendously much because my depression comes laced with a huge whopping dose of anxiety and that didn't seem to be the case with Allie, but it did give me some insight into a friend of mine's depression (she has it without the anxiety). I do have to admit the dead-fish thing made a lot of sense.

da

same here, about the +anxiety part

i'm glad i could see what it's like from another angle, too

there are all sorts of forms of depression (yay :( )

[ SECRET POST #2335 ]

ok, so let's talk about depression and those who don't get it

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