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A sad place for sad people to be sad.

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This community is for people with depression. Memes and general discussion about depression are encouraged and welcome.

Bi-polar people are also allowed to post here but only sometimes.(joke)

This community is aimed at being inclusive for all people with depression and as such should be free of racism, homophobia, trans-phobia, sexism, patriarch and all other forms of hate-speech.

Trolls will be banned!

Thnx

Some resources posted from helpful people:

Therapy is not for everyone, check out peer counseling instead: https://www.americanmentalwellness.org/intervention/peer-support/

Find health professionals: https://www.psychologytoday.com/

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There's no real point to any of this, is there? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Kyrgizion@lemmy.world to c/depression_now@lemmy.world

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Even IF you somehow manage to navigate today's maze of failures, rejections and heartbreak, what is your reward? To live yet another day in misery? To wait until climate change, war or disease does away with us?

A reward would be to be able to rest. I don't mean death per sé, but it seems like that's the only real-life thing left available to people like us.

Yes, yes, I know very well that "if nothing has meaning, YOU get to choose the meaning". Except I don't. Maybe if I was rich or powerful. But I'm poor, in poor health and powerless.

I read Camus' Sisiphus, and I, for one, cannot possibly imagine him happy.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the only way for people to be happy is to distract themselves from the issues of the world. As soon as you think about it, you'd have to be doing some serious mental gymnastics to think it's ok. It's a selfish perspective, but if you care about being happy more than being awake to the world's issues, then get busy doing something.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I used to do this with weed but my source dried up unexpectedly and it's fully illegal here. I can get every type of pill imaginable but a fricking plant? No can do...