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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
with depression i do understand that it's just some chemical imbalance in the brain but for whatever reason my gut still feels like telling depressed people to just snap out of it cause they're usually depressed over **** that isn't really that big of a deal to me. and even when it is a big deal i feel like there's no sense in dwelling on it.
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There's many different reasons and explanations for depression. There's an irregularity of certain hormones (I think that's the right terminology for dopamine, seratonin, etc) caused by bipolar disorder. There's also other factors, most of which have to do with mental processes. It's easy for someone who's not depressed to roll their eyes and say "get over it". It's very different for the people who actually experience it. Depression is defined as the
inability to cope with negative feelings and thoughts. Whether or not you think it's a big deal or if it's worth dwelling on has literally no significance whatsoever and it's harmfully insensitive for people like you to voice those opinions to people who are dealing with depression. As someone who has dealt with depression and has a family/had friends who responded to it in the way you have here I can tell you you're only making things worse.