or maybe just maybe we're learning more about mental illness and finally understanding its impact on behavior and are learning to prevent it/treat it instead of chalking up depression and anxiety to "overreactions" or "laziness." Like, maybe some people are fucking glad there are so many different kinds of anti-depressants on the market. Because they NEED them. Because their fucking BRAINS don't make enough of certain kinds of chemicals and medication helps to fix that imbalance. I understand that sometimes medications are over-prescribed and that our medical industry is run at the mercy of pharmaceutical companies, but that doesn't fucking invalidate the diseases finally getting the recognition and treatment they deserve. So whoever made this, whoever has the idea that all this concern with emotional and mental health is just namby pamby new age liberal bullshit can eat a dick. Don't you devalue you my struggles. Don't you devalue the struggles of the depressed and the mentally ill. We've always had symptoms. We just didn't have the knowledge to recognize them as such.
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#sorry#but when people get all artsy about how terrible it is that we're diagnosing people with mental illness all the time#I'm like FUCK YOU#I have been depressed since I was 6 or 7#I was suicidal at 9 and 12#and you're trying to tell me that that's just a characteristic of mine?#that kid that young would hate herself that much???#NO#it's a disease#it is a real live fucking disease#it's not ignoring emotions#it's not trying to take away the importance of individuality#it's about HELPING THOSE WHO ARE SICK#SO GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELF#mental illness#depression