>>17407467You stupid fucking asshole, don't you dare leap down my throat because I'm trying to help someone who probably is depressed.
I grew up in homeless shelters from the age of 4 to 10. My mother, who was raped by her father/my grandfather, ritualistically beat me every single week until I was 20 (when I moved out).
When I was six, I saw a child drowned in a bathtub by the neglect of his drug-addled mother in a homeless shelter when one of those inflatable rubby ducky things flipped over and she had left the tub unattended. I wandered around the shelter for probably five minutes meekly saying to the people there "the baby stopped crying, please help."
I have been diagnosed with severe long-term depression, PTSD, manic-depression, panic attacks, and night terrors. Most nights, even now as a "successful adult", I wake up screaming or smashing my arms into a wall.
When I was in college, a psychologist directed me to DSS. It was probably the only thing that allowed me to avoid the beurocratic discrimination american schools lump upon people like us, and I -know- that this guy could find help there.
Just because you're too fucking chicken to stop being a victim or because you're too proud or ashamed to demand that this world help you through the bullshit -they- exposed you to through their societal indifference doesn't mean you need to shame people for asking for help.
Fuck you too. People like you are why so many people with depression never get properly treated.
