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> and telling someone that all they have to do is work out and eat well and get outside is almost cruel. Except the author doesn't do this. They describe a sy
by abletonlive 5y ago
> and telling someone that all they have to do is work out and eat well and get outside is almost cruel.
Except the author doesn't do this. They describe a system in which they track and observe what doesn't and what does work for them. Only someone that's living with a victim mentality would suggest that this is an attack on their own situation.
I'm tired of the suffering-olympics that people put on. "This person isn't as depressed as me. I've got a medical professional to confirm this, therefore what you've shared is unhelpful to anybody"
Surely you realize how ridiculous this position is?
- mattzito 5y agoLet me frame it another way - if someone said, "Hey, I have ALS, and here's what I did to fix it" - would we be having the same conversation? Or, "Hey, I have pancreatic cancer, and instead of medicine, I'm going with a fruits and coffee enema approach" We would be talking about how irresponsible it is - which in fact, we did on this very site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14564547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14564547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080176 To be clear - I am not a victim, I have never suffered from clinical depression. I don't care about the victim olympics. But there's a whole host of conditions where we immediately disregard people who say they fixed it themselves, or tried to fix it themselves. But take something like depression and we are saying that "hey this worked for someone else so we should consider it, and criticizing it is a victim mentality"