Hyperbole and a Half: motherfucking UPDATE

[Cainad (dec.)]

You're damn right this gets its own thread: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

It's a follow-up about depression, and it's just as relevant as the previous one.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

No, eyes, why you broken? People are coming over. Stop leaking.

[Cain]

Corn has magical depression curing properties.

[Sita]

So very much I can identify with there. So very, very much.

[Chucklemaster]

You're damn right this gets its own thread: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

It's a follow-up about depression, and it's just as relevant as the previous one.

Huzzah!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Now I am laughing and crying at the same time. Her blog was my piece of corn a few years ago.

I totally relate to the thing about telling people. I think the worst part was the day that I told a friend that I needed help, and she said "You're strong, you'll be fine".

A note; if someone tells you they can't feel anything and don't want to be alive anymore and they need help, "You're strong, you'll be fine" is not a very helpful answer.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, I used to think I was depressed, when I was young. I confused severe and at times debilitating anxiety, exacerbated by arrhythmia, with depression. Then I actually had depression and it was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced in my life.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Depression comes in a lot of flavors. They all suck.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Depression comes in a lot of flavors. They all suck.

Yeah, the problem is that anxiety and depression are radically different at the biological level and are not treated similarly at all. So basically I had doctors trying to treat anxiety with depression medication, which did nothing, and not treating my anxiety at all.

And of course, once I was correctly diagnosed with anxiety and arrhythmia, the anxiety was a piece of cake to treat and understanding arrhythmia helped me to prevent the adrenaline/cortisol spike that occurs with an irregular heart beat from spiraling into anxiety.

So yeah, they all suck, but confusing something that isn't actually depression for depression also leads to a lack of appropriate treatment, which is just stupid.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Awesome seeing her back. 

And thought provoking as always. Now I'm wondering if thinking everything is pointless bullshit and nothing is necessarily depression, or if everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Pretty sure it's the latter where I live. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Awesome seeing her back. 

And thought provoking as always. Now I'm wondering if thinking everything is pointless bullshit and nothing is necessarily depression, or if everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Pretty sure it's the latter where I live. 

It's ALL where you live.  The rest of the world isn't like that.

[Golden Applesauce]

YES

[P3nT4gR4m]

Awesome seeing her back. 

And thought provoking as always. Now I'm wondering if thinking everything is pointless bullshit and nothing is necessarily depression, or if everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Pretty sure it's the latter where I live. 

Everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Until YOU decide differently. One of the keys to unlocking depression, for me, was when I had that "I like this but it's doesn't mean anything" trainwreck of thought, turning it into "it means something to me and that's all that matters"

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Awesome seeing her back. 

And thought provoking as always. Now I'm wondering if thinking everything is pointless bullshit and nothing is necessarily depression, or if everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Pretty sure it's the latter where I live. 

Everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Until YOU decide differently. One of the keys to unlocking depression, for me, was when I had that "I like this but it's doesn't mean anything" trainwreck of thought, turning it into "it means something to me and that's all that matters"

I like that.

[Chucklemaster]

Awesome seeing her back. 

And thought provoking as always. Now I'm wondering if thinking everything is pointless bullshit and nothing is necessarily depression, or if everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Pretty sure it's the latter where I live. 

Everything really IS pointless bullshit and nothing. Until YOU decide differently. One of the keys to unlocking depression, for me, was when I had that "I like this but it's doesn't mean anything" trainwreck of thought, turning it into "it means something to me and that's all that matters"

I like that.

Second.