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> Said changes utterly failed to even make a dent in my depression, finally convincing me that nothing I did would ever make me feel good again (this was after
by exolymph 7y ago
> Said changes utterly failed to even make a dent in my depression, finally convincing me that nothing I did would ever make me feel good again (this was after multiple trials of antidepressants and talk therapy over the course of 10+ years; it's not like this was the first thing I tried).
Oof, I didn't have quite as hard of a time as you, but that description resonates a lot. My experience(s) with depression have taught me to never make empty promises to people — it is cruel to present psychiatry or therapy as One Weird Trick™ that'll definitely solve your problems, as opposed to an option worth trying. In reality it's a crapshoot and you might luck out, but you also might not.
- canada_dry 7y ago> taught me to never make empty promises to people Yes, I suspect this is probably a key trigger for suicidal people. You get a well meaning parent/sibling/relative that quickly gets in over their head trying to deal with a seriously depressed/mentally ill person and often they resort to this. A useful public service message would connect people in this position to contact mental health support services themselves to better understand how to help the individual they care about. In a better world we have services available for both the mentally ill, and for the people (spouse, parent, etc) that are supporting them.
- Cougher 7y agoYou guys are touching on something that's been grinding my gears for years: the large number of people who parrot vacuous feel-goodies from pop-psych purveyors like Wayne Dyer and Zig Ziglar as though they're user manuals to fix lives.