>>2427532When people are depressed (and I guess I might have slipped down that way once upon a time) the way I find it's best to deal with it is to go exercise. I feel an issue with Depression and Anxiety is it's too easily diagnosed as an illness. A close friend of mine suffers from it. However it's not due to any real hardship but instead a chemical imbalance that tips the brain to think that way. To me that is legitimate and requires care. However too often we have people use depression to justify not being able to man the fuck up when something causes them to be on the back-foot.
When I was younger I found myself in a position of worry and I felt down but then I kept going and got through it, basically being the thing that gave me my current attitude in life. At my current age last year I got smacked with something life-changing and honestly after the immediate shock wore of being told the issue I was already off on the offensive on working through plan B in my scenario.
TL;DR Depression is being used an an easy excuse while people with an actual mental illness are not getting help because they don't fucking advertise it.
