"Get help" they said. If only it was so simple.

[KristineMC]

I feel like there's this big misconception in society where people who have never lived through mental health issues massively overestimate how effective treatment is. So many people seem to think depression can just be talked away by opening up to a shrink. It seems so absurd. Prolifers or anyone in general's response to a struggling person is always "get help, talk to someone, etc etc". In their mind, the biggest barrier to people getting better is simply stigma/unwillingness to seek treatment (of course this is a big issue, but much of the general population seem to view is as the main/only issue when it is often not). If only they would seek help, it would all be solved, or so they think.

It seems like this assumption is only held when mental health is concerned. For physical ailments, people seem to understand that treatment doesn't always work and even if it does, it's sometimes not straightforward. Psychiatry is scarily underdeveloped and the brain is so underresearched that at this point I practically consider psychiatrists to be witch doctors. Thorw drugs at you and maybe one works. The only medical field with basically no definitive understanding of how any of their illnesses work biologically. Not to mention the coercive care side of things.

So yeah, I'm tired of being told to "get help" or "just talk to someone". Like, you really think I've never thought of that before? Believe me, I've tried. About 5 psychiatrists and 4 therapists. It's only made me worse. There is no hope, and I'm tired.

 

[SMxj9]

As someone living with depression since i was a child i agree 100%. Drugs only made me worse.

Sometimes they need to believe there's always a way, a cure, they can't deal with reality.

Sure you can always save someone from suicide, by basically turning them into vegetables who have no will to live or die.

 

[Lazuli]

"Get help" is one of the things better left unsaid because it's so corny.

 

[rainatthebusstop]

I'm pretty sure the "Get Help!"/"seek therapy" crowd is also, funnily enough, the crowd making the social stigma around treatment worse.

deadass got told that i would become "dependent on drugs" and "really fat and ugly" if I ever went on antidepressants by the same person who tried to forcibly admit me to therapy. It's like "do you want me to get treated or no"?

 

[Fadenself00_]

Thorw drugs at you and maybe one works

you forgot "and if they make you worse, you'll be gaslit and called crazy"