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Depression memes are creating a normalization of having depression
| I hope this thread doesn't get controversial or anything, but this kind of shit is starting to disgust me. i've got someone who is close to me that has depression and actually tried to commit suicide twice.
| Stuff like that has been going on for years already
| Can't wait til ppl put out happiness memes and kids just jump on it because apparently everyone's depressed
| "Cool depressed kiddos" is never a thing at my place. I guess I can see how people see being depressed kid as cool if they are into anime. But most of the time people tend to strive for being rich/sporty in order to fit it or be popular, not depressed.
| Hey, someone who's been getting treatment for depression for a year here, I don't think it matters. Let them have their dumb fun.
| It was true before the memes, there was the whole "don't romanticize mental illness" thing like 8-10 years ago. I think the big change is that it's expressed in the same sort of ironic way that's become popular.
Why, I don't know - for one thing there really is mental illness, and I also suspect it's related to how nobody wants to look fortunate or like they have an easy time, so folks for example also pretend to have struggled economically when they are actually rich.
| >>ad3526 this, like my boss brags about how he came from the poor eastend even though his parents are made of money.
But I also see bandwagoning, popular depression joke goes round then to be in on it people do a tumblretes version of depression so that they can have sympathy thrown at them and be apart of the self degrading joke without having the illness.
Same shit different fad, except this time it ain't something you can ditch if you actually have it.
| >>517439
>I also suspect it's related to how nobody wants to look fortunate or like they have an easy time
may I ask where you live? I did not know that this attitude existed and it is totally bizarre to me.
| WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN SUCH A REACTION TAKE PLACE???
| neo-goths are a thing now?
| Well, you can do nothing about that. Some linguists even predict that "depressed" will be used as some kind of a casual curse word. Though I don't see a big problem in jokes. They have always been a way to transcend the tragedy. That's even connected to the nature of jokes and funny stuff. Things are funny, because they are surprising, because they ruin your expectations. And that means that we all understand hardships of people with mental ilnesses and expect everybody to do so
| There is also a big difference between memes about depression and pretending to be depressed, you know.
| Maybe we retweet depression memes because we actually have depression and want to have never been born but are too scared of alienating the happy people to talk about it directly and have to do so through the veil of plausible deniability
I wish I had the courage to just do it already but because I'm still too weak, I will repost a meme of a sad anime girl in vaporwave aesthetics posing with a knife to her wrist with bad jpg artifacting
| >>517697
A nurse got pricked by a needle, and developped fear of needles to the point of life threatening self-harm. That's OCD, and people just dismiss this as a meme "get it over with" illness.
| I don't believe it's possible to act depressive...
| I mean that would be ironic if they were ACTUALLY depressed and were actively seeking help through... reposting cripplingdepressiong.jpg
which it doesn't feel like...
| I personally don't care, but I see why you do. When people make fun of something, any serious meaning behind the topic gets erased. Profanity like cunt, fag, or sperg have lost power, whereas racial slurs still have a way to go. Mental illness seems to be going the former way, and that's not good, because mere words used to characterise people is not the same as words that describes problems and issues one may have.
| These days, you'll very easily come across someone who will get 'triggered', 'shell shocked', or has regular 'PTSD'. This is a result of both society being soft and because not enough attention is given to the affliction, as seen by the may homeless vets. Depression is also going down that route. People made fun of depression so much that some think they are also affected merely because the memes are somewhat relatable.
| But of course, this also kind of raises awareness to mental illness. Where in the past people don't understand how it came to be, these days people merely make light of it.
| ITT: Muh depression
| >>518058
>Depression memes are creating a normalization of having depression
Stop being sarcastic and read thread name
| >>518393
I wasn't being sarcastic, I did not know what normalization is. I thought normalization meant how the perception of a feeling or medical condition by the general public was being distorted away from how it really is lived by those afflicted (like OCD).
| >>517387 Good I want to take advantage of their faggy depression that they've normalized and have an orgy with all those depressed kiddies
| I feel like certain people just act depressed for attention, which makes it harder to actually help people, who are really depressed
| >>518979
True, but uh, I think most people who act that way are actually depressed to some degree or other. Still, there are indeed some attention seekers among those (I've actually witnessed a few even IRL), and it does suck, but I hope people won't automatically assume that's the norm.
| >>518979
That's actually true. And it has been said a lot of times before. Even in this thread.
The question is: how can you really distinguish between attention whores and those who need help? It's a proven fact that depressed people tend to be somewhat egocentrical. It's just not proven whether depression is a cause of it or not.
| >I see my friends ironically pretending to be depressed to fit right into "cool depressed kiddos" gang
>>517387
When I went to school this kind of gang was called "the goths" or even more stupid "the satanists". I actually liked them more than other gangs, because they were more open and less simple minded than the others.
Later when I went to a larger city to study, I also met this people in black dresses. But unfortunately they were much more superficial and consumeristic there.
| Me:
>had a relapse into self harm an hour ago and sliced up my shoulder (barely and not remotely deep because I'm weak)
>gets on Twitter thinking to try and contact someone close to me to talk about it
>realize I have no one close to me and it's my own fault
>Just reblog several totally-ironic memes of fictional characters saying they want to die or memes of anime girls with a gun to their head because it's all I can really do.
That's why depression memes must exist.
| i feel like the popularity of depression doesn't just make attention whores, though, but actual depressed kids as well. personally, i think memes about it are fine but shouldn't be spread around to the degree that they are.
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| I see my friends ironically pretending to be depressed to fit right into "cool depressed kiddos" gang, i just find this shit disrespectful for the people who have been actually dealing with depression.. discuss