the thing that ive learned living with major depressive disorder and treatment resistant depression is that it gets better. and it gets worse again. and then it gets better again. and so on and so on. for better or for worse change is inevitable. you will be happy.
lauren ☆ミ@mslaurengracee
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a disclaimer is i’m rly only able to use this as a coping skill because my current med cocktail works. 5 different psych meds and iv ketamine therapy. there have been many times this thought hasnt helped me. been involuntary hospitalized many times. twitter has limited characters
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i have scars of all kinds all over my arms. ive been stitched up from suicide attempts multiple times. i have “has consumed toxic fluid” on my permanent record. i’ve been abandoned so many times for being too fucked up. i’m 31 and i live with my parents because i cant do anything
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twitter limited characters makes nuanced topics hard to discuss and i think it causes a lot of misunderstanding. esp how people like to have a short and sweet comment. mental illness will never be that simple. when i’m suffering it comforts me to know change will always happen.
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wether its with my mental health or my physical health. i’m disabled and chronically ill. it sucks it all sucks so much. i have to claw at finding things to help. every time i’m suffering what helps is different. its good to have as many coping skills as possible.
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i tell myself the only thing that matters is wake up alive tomorrow. whatever gets me through the night is allowed. i’ve only recently been able to use healthy coping skills successfully. i’m doing really well right now. and i know i will have depressive episodes in the future
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and i wanted to share all this because i KNOW what it’s like to have someone tell u shit about mental illness when they’ve never been through it. it’s offensive and angering. so hopefully knowing this about me can help you trust me more.
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is there supposed to be something comforting about this? do people really find the "ups" so worthwhile even when they know everything will just be ruined again?
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if it doesnt comfort you that’s okay. it doesnt always comfort me. the part that comforts me is that my suffering isnt forever. but i need to add the it gets worse part because people try to hide that. it’s a dirty truth i think non mentally ill ppl need to accept about illness.
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I've always thought that some of the resistance to 'it gets better' messaging is also a 'see me as I am NOW' kinda sentiment. Like, if the majority of what you hear when you're in a depression hole is people focusing on your current state of existence being temporary, that can >
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i totally agree! i personally hate people who say it gets better and leave it there. because so what if it gets better? its bad RIGHT NOW! and it will be bad again! the thought helps me personally when i tell myself, but when others tell me it gets better its dismissive.
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when life starts feeling unbearable & everything is awful but then i remember i have major depressive disorder and i can simply ignore the majority of the negative feelings as fake
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not at all. what i’ve said is incredibly simplified. ive been in the mental hospital over 20 times. i’ve gone to residential. i’m on 5 medications and ketamine therapy. i have no access to meds or any objects that i could use to hurt myself.-
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addiction recovery is similar. there will be days youre 1 bad thing away from relapse and there will be days that you dont think about it at all. the goal in recovery is that when those opportunities arise you can recognise "i dont want to be in pain again" and you ask for help
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Thank you for this. I hit a huge depressive spell for a few weeks and im finally feeling better its always good to hear from others with disorders that its an up and a down and... continue on and on and on.
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the point is it's all survivable. you can survive it. if you want to, you can survive horrendous circumstances and you can survive great circumstances but you will always just be surviving. humans are actually really great at surviving
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“regression to the mean”, something i learned from teen wolf and has kept me pushing thru it all. it cant be good all the time, but it cant be bad all the time either. it all evens out
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Regardless of how true it is for a lot of people (not all, some people truly do not get better), it’s kind of irrelevant to tell people due to the nature of the condition. No amount of preaching about it is gonna help so we gotta find another solution here
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as someone who has struggled with depression for as long as I can remember, I find it comforting to remember that people without depression also experience ups and downs in life. such is the nature of humanity. even my darkest moments are proof that i am alive
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Yeah the first thing I was told when I was diagnosed was that it was never going to "go away", id just have to get better at managing and living with it. Which sucks..of course😞
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so real. I had depression at 16, got better, changed my life, thought that was it and I would be happy forever and would never go back there again. 25, got *really bad* again, thought "....well shit, we're doing this again". And here we are, getting out of it again, because I can
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you really just gotta keep trying and moving forward frl. it kills me but i keep going, apparently
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Life gets so good sometimes I feel like thats why I gotta keep going, but the depth of the pits i find myself in are genuinely unlivable. I wish i would stop choosing to keep going.
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one of the hardest things about having mdd imo is that I get tunnel vision, where it's almost impossible for me to see anything getting better.
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Ngl, a big part of my problem with my depression when I was a teen was that I couldn't handle the waves of better and worse, it exhausted me(now I'm on Meds that actually work and I have a cat that needs me so I'm dealing better with it)
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knowing its a cycle is the only way i've been able to keep going tbh. it's like this forever, but not 100% of the time, so i just have to do the most i can with what i have. mdd sucks!!
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soooo true!!!!
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