It seems like I can’t go a day without another celebrity saying they have a mental illness, it’s great that people are being brave but I feel a bit cynical about it - it’s almost become trendy to suffer from depression…
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Probably …
I know that moron Kanye West claims to be a genius with bi polar…
I feel like the depression thing is kind of trendy now. The way people talk about having depression is like they just think it’s just being sad about something.
This is what I see as the trendiness, people all saying they suffer from depression who really just want to celebrate that they sometimes get sad.
I don’t think it’s trendy to be raw about it and talk about how you would like to blow your brains out.
Then again maybe I lack the empathy that everyone must have. Depression isn’t something I feel is particularly happy to talk about, that is why I don’t understand those with a desire to talk about it. I like to keep people who are happy as still happy and not bring them to a depressing state.
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Maybe, part of me hopes that it’s just becoming trendy to be more open about mental health issues. But I can see people using the whole thing in bad ways, faking a MI, using it as an excuse for their behaviors, etc etc.
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Yeah I don’t much like people using a label as a crutch.
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I mean depression is incredibly common, so I kind of believe them. Mild depressions are also a lot easier to handle than severe depressions. I think it’s good if people stop believing depression is uncommon and strange. I do wish people would talk about mental illnesses that aren’t common and less severe, though. That is, disorders that aren’t just about feeling anxious and depressed.
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I was mentally crap , before it was cool to be.
Does that make me a mentally ill hipster??
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Has anyone seen a celeb claiming to be SZ or SZA? We never get a lot of support on the field
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We see a lot of sz/sza’s claiming to be celebrities,(myself included in the past) but I haven’t seen so much of the vice versa 
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I think part of me is probably just bitter at those with mild depression which I would rather have, I feel like I am a whiner when I talk about depression, probably some issue that needs addressed there but I guess I am making progress by whining.
Your on a roll here, keep it going those were two very funny comments ha.
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My ex told me once, that actually its the opposite. That its not trendy to be a sz anymore… But he was an ass****… I was already trying to deal with my complexes to be inactive, dead and just depressed about all this illness of mine…
I don’t think it’s whining, but I do think depression fools you into thinking you have it much worse than everyone else.
Maybe that’s why there are so many people talking about their depressions… even if they’re mild ones.
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For me the worst part of my mental illness is the major depressive episodes. The other stuff I can withstand better, but losing all hope and being all alone in the depths of despair is torture for me.
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Yeah I agree with that, it fools you into thinking it’s worse than everyone else’s.
I can say having experienced mild depression in the past compared to now major that major is a hell of a different beast.
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I’ve had very severe depressions and can honestly say it’s not that far up on the list of bad things that can happen to you. Although of course I did think so at the time, because the depression clouded my judgment. And the episodes are usually very temporary.
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Oh god, I hate it so much, I would rather die.
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I completely understand. But it’s going to get better. Don’t make permanent decisions to solve temporary problems.
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true, you have to hold on, no matter what
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The judgement clouding is what I find the most dangerous, it is not rational and the suicidal thinking is pretty rough. I know it’s “easy” to get through as nothing physical happens but you can get yourself thinking it’s better to be dead which is a pretty bad end game.
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