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Faking happiness on social media helped me cope with depression
- mchahn 11y agoOne time I went through a severe depression. It was caused by external events, not a systemic neural problem. I started pretending to my wife, everyone else, and I guess myself that I was fine. It worked. I started feeling the way I was acting. This ties into a belief I've held for some time that getting deep-seated problems in the open is bull. Hiding things is often the best medicine. I know someone who was abused in childhood and the therapist weekly made her revisit the experience and her feelings. She cried for hours after every visit. I helped talk her out of going to the crazy therapist.