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Yuyu's avatar

Thank you for sharing something so private.

Luckily I’ve never been depressed, but I just had an idea: have you tried, when not being depressed, recording a video to your future depressed self where you remind him that you deserve happiness and that this episode will pass? Maybe hearing it from your own mouth will help you believe it next time.

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Jon Deutsch's avatar

My partner suffers from hereditary and deeply systemic depression (currently alleviated through complex pharma therapy), and your description rings incredibly true to how she appears to experience it.

One of the most important things I've learned about people who are depressed is that thoughts of suicide are not "horrible" as most normies would suggest. Rather, these thoughts are actually the most logical and rational thoughts to have given the points of reference a depressed mind has to utilize and build strategies around.

Nicely done, and thank you.

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