• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Christ, so much of this shit on social media. People need to recognize that when you show up to try and help out with depression and anxiety (because they went online begging for someone to help) its some emotional fucking labor, too. Like trying to pull someone onto a boat who is drowning, only for that person to keep shoving you away and insisting you’re saving them wrong.

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      2 months ago

      Thank you.

      It’s tough on the other people around as well as that person. It’s not that they don’t care, it’s that they don’t know how to help and the negativity and stuff affects them too.

      By the way, I say that as someone who’s been clinically diagnosed and did six months as an inpatient.