I get in certain instances, depression is a last resort and a result of something but I feel like every time something goes against somebody, they now just become depressed or so they think. Instead of trying to persevere through something bad that happened, they just curl up into a ball and wallow in their sorrows. Again, sometimes I can understand this because you just give up but in most cases it’s just pitiful. People glorify depression, especially on Tumblr. I love Tumblr as much as the next person but when I am just roaming around Tumblr and I see girls tagging pictures of themselves as #cute #suicidal #self-harm #kill me now, it’s just fucking retarded. Never thought I would see the day where perfectly normal girls who got dumped by their boyfriend of 6 months would say OMFG im gonna kill myself, I loved him soooo much!!! All that fake depression shit is just pitiful. Some of the people I follow just constantly complain every small hardship and are like my life fucking blows, I’m so depressed, fuck life, etc. Just stop, you all are like 16-25 years old, you have a whole lot of time to figure everything out
You can be sad and not be depressed. Being sad is an emotion every is going to experience a shit ton of in every day life so get fucking used to it, being sad doesn’t instantly correlate to you being fucking depressed. You’re going to have some hardships, life ain’t perfect and you damn sure aren’t the exception to that rule.
I say this as somebody who had a mom who for about 2 and a half years would hardly move from the bed because she was so depressed and a sister who got sexually abused by a baby-sitter’s boyfriend and suppressed it through depression and drug use, even went to rehab for it. So don’t be like, Oh you just don’t understand it, because I know, lived, and witnessed real depression and there is nothing remotely glorious about it. Even seeing it first-hand throughout my late middle school and early high school years, I still hold resentment against my parents for it all but as I grow older, I start to understand a little more. Still pisses me off though.
I also understand that there actually are a few people I see that are genuinely depressed because they don’t post that stupid shit and actually use Tumblr as a place to express their inner thoughts and it helps them out. But out of the 100ish people I follow, I can only think of 1 for sure and maybe 2 that are legitimately depressed. The others, you can post shit that is sad and not act like the world is caving in one you. Most of your problems aren’t shit you’ll remember in a month and quit acting like any hardship that happens to you is so special and only you know how it feels. Every little problem isn’t meant to be blown up into some catastrophe.
Oh, and fuck any of you that use tags like depression, suicidal, etc. to gain followers.
/end rant and I realize none of you will actually read this lol
