Mentally ill woman in her late 30s. Quit my jobs with DIDDs to go to work a retail job and go to school.
I’m here to help!
Formerly @kbin.social.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13163168
Go reread the person I responded to before you entered the conversation. They said their depression was caused by an external factor. That is who I replied to, and the reply you’ve been desperate to strawman ever since.
At what point did I gatekeep depression by agreeing with someone else about their diagnosis?
You’re being a little ridiculous right now.
For the second time, stop trying to turn my reply to someone else into a blanket statement. I understand picking needless fights with strangers on the internet qualifies as dopamine seeking behavior. Maybe you should be looking inward.
This is precisely the pedantic reply I expected.
Laymen differentiate between addressing things in their environment that cause increases in things like norepinephrine by the cause, environmentally, and not by the resulting chemical release in the brain.
Referring to both chemical treatment, such as taking medication, and environmental treatment, such as quitting a job that causes you stress (or depression, as in the conversation above) as “chemical” is the kind of nitpicky BS that would only further obfuscate the discussion, serving absolutely zero purpose unless you were the type to want to start a fight over nothing.
You may as well refer to everything the brain ever experiences as “chemical.” It’s would be the most literal interpretation, and would serve zero purpose as a method of communication. Much like your conversation with me.
Don’t reframe my statement addressing someone’s specific situation into a blanket comment. That person said their depression had a reason (that could be addressed, and once addressed, the depression was resolved.)
Speaking to that instance, it probably wasn’t chemical, because if it was, it wouldn’t have resolved with action taken independent of chemical treatment, but only with a combination.
I am not the person to try and strawman about depression.
If your depression is for a reason, then yeah, probably not chemicals.
Mine is treatment resistant major depression and very much chemicals. Took me until I was in my midthirties to find the solution. There’s hope even for people with bad chemistry!
This only works if you have a set schedule.
I have a schedule at work that shifts randomly from morning to night and this resulted in me forgetting my meds for my Monday shift. So many errors…
Jon Stewart would make sure they were recording when the gestapo walks in and carries him off.
A kid forgot his instrument but showed up to a performance in middle school and the teacher told him to “sit in his seat and make the gestures. No one will see you anyway.”
I was too busy with my own music to watch but I know he did it. I bet it was amazing.
I’m tempted to do that myself!
…right up until I tell someone to hold my sign for me because my movie is about to start, and then I go inside to watch it.
Also known as the Air Bud defense.
Gigaton Hammer (Tinkaton). Special mention to Triple Arrows (Decidueye.)
I’m explaining to the people downvoting that the cartoon man in this meme is from a show written by the man scottmeme is linking to on youtube. And the phrase, “Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!” Is a common meme from that fandom (and said by what is probably my favorite villain of all time.)
That’s Alex Hirsch. He made Gravity Falls. He voiced Bill Cipher. He also voiced King on Owl House.
Same episode that gave us the amazing, “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”
Being bi is literally the best of both worlds. It’s the sexual equivalent of being born wealthy.
The coastal mathematicians are just into math to screw you and take your money. The geniuses at πzo really captured the spirit of the math.
(I had to go a long way to get to πzo but I’m glad ai got there.)
I would absolutely download a car that would destroy every pot in this shop for me.
I keep rereading it, and it keeps making me laugh.
Thank you for this.