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I will add another FCK YOU to these people from me, a person living with Schizoaffective Disorder for 45 years. As I have said in other posts, this person was
by podgaj 5y ago
I will add another FCK YOU to these people from me, a person living with Schizoaffective Disorder for 45 years.
As I have said in other posts, this person was NOT suffering from clinical depression. They were at best suffering situational depression, otherwise called "sadness".
And these articles always come from these rich successful people because we all know once you make some money you know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING and you get to write an article about it and make even more money.
So as you said, they wrote about this stuff and then people look at us and think it is all out fault. These neoliberal leftists are turning into the worst kind of people.
And so who listens to me? I have been studying, on my own Genetics, Nutrigenomics, and Mitochondrial Biology and by changing my lifestyle it has enabled me to get off of the 4 med cocktail I was on.
And then she briefly acknowledges her "financial security" as playing a role. Well let's see her trying to do it on disability, homeless, living in a van in the winter. I would say she was able to cure her sadness SOLEY because of her finances.
All people with Mental Illness need to push back hard on these articles because they create both inner and outer stigma that ruins us.
- borepop 5y agoI responded to the parent comment so I won't belabor it, but I think this take on the article is faulting the author for a claim she never made. The article never even mentions schizoaffective disorder and makes no attempt to propose a cure for mental illness. Discussions about useful approaches for dealing with relatively mild depression are not a criticism of people who suffer from more serious conditions.
- skinnymuch 5y agoThe parent said: > They were at best suffering situational depression, otherwise called "sadness". The blogger didn’t say sadness or mild depression much or at all. They said depression from the get go and made the symptoms seem decently severe at first. Tho again. That is not something that can differentiated from a period of sadness. The OPs schizoaffective disorder does not change anything they wrote.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoFrom this and your other comments, it sounds like you are really struggling. I hope things get better for you.
- podgaj 5y agoThis is patronizing and stigmatizing and dues not negate the truth of what I am saying. You might ask me to explain more and understand why people like me who suffer clinical depression have a problem with articles like this.
- pstuart 5y agoI'd like to hear about what you've discovered. Planning to go on meds but I'd like to know more about self-care. I'm "lucky" because there's a situational aspect to my condition but I know there's genetics at play (family/personal history).
- podgaj 5y agoFeel free to email me at podgaj@fastmail.org
- shythrowaway 5y agoIt is neither and it seems appropriate to stick up for the comment you are replying to. It's about as simple of an expression of empathy as can be expressed, to treat it as otherwise reinforces the point. Take care.
- podgaj 5y agoThis is the stigma. No matter what I say about how I feel it will always come back to my mental illness. I can literally tell people how something made me felt and they gaslight me and diagnose me! I am having a hard time with the article, that is all.
- Karunamon 5y agoOkay. Why do you have a problem with articles like this (that is, articles where someone describes some serious problems in their life and describes what worked for them with no attempt at describing those activities as universally beneficial)?
- rumblerock 5y agoI would love to know more about the topics you mentioned, would you care to share in more detail or point towards some starter material?
- podgaj 5y agoFeel free to email me at podgaj@fastmail.org
- mbrodersen 5y agoWay to play the victim card. What you are saying is that she hasn’t suffered as much as you so therefore she has no right to talk about her personal experience. Really? So somebody who has suffered for 46 years can tell you to FCK YOU because you haven’t suffered enough to know what you are talking about? Have you been raped and molested as a 12 year old? If not then you obviously should not talk about suffering because you are a privileged non-raped person. Really? Is that your logic?
- podgaj 5y agoShe can talk about her personal experience all she wants, but it was a horrible article that may cause harm to people by increasing stigma in people with depression. The truth is SHE wanted to be seen as a victim of depression. It made a good story. She was sad, and that sucks, but it was not depression. If she talked about how she over came her sadness I would have not commented about the article. I would not make a comment about the suffering of someone who was raped as a 12 year old, that whole part was a logical fallacy.