This is what those who have never experienced genuine depression will never understand. Everything can be going perfectly in your life, but you still can't find the energy to bring color back into your world no matter what you do. The overwhelming numbness just eats away at you, and you withdraw even further. Some of us may even turn to substances to just feel SOMETHING, regardless of how fleeting the escape may be, and how much worse we know we'll feel afterwards. You are unable to see the light at the end of the tunnel, the future is bleak, and you will die alone in a world that doesn't give a fuck, so what's the point?
So you finally find the courage to confide in somebody, and they tell you that you just need to "get past it, think positive!" and that they also "get depressed too"... and the worst part is, you are unable to describe to them in any way how it truly feels, because they've genuinely never felt it themselves, so now you worry that you're just coming across as dramatic, furthering the desire to withdraw and keep your thoughts to yourself.
I'm currently going through a depressed period, if it isn't obvious. I'll be okay in another week, but it's fucking horrible, and I wouldn't wish this on anybody.
What I hated most about my depression is it would take anything that happened and make it terrible. I got a promotion? Great, more work to do. My wife cooked my favorite meal? Great, now there's a ton of dishes to do. I'm gonna take a break and play a game? I'll probably lose, why bother playing.
And this fatalism morphed into anxiety that made it so I couldn't get out of bed in the morning. I'd lay there paralyzed with fear about failing at everything that day, to the point where I'd set my alarm to go off early just so I could have time to have a panic attack.
One thing that helped me a lot was to give that little voice a name, and then tell it to fuck off every time it spoke up.
I would go as far as to argue that if your life sucks and you aren't happy about it that probably isn't mental illness. That's just having a shit life, and is a healthy response to your shit circumstances.
Not to say that can't cause depression, of course. But just being unhappy about your shit life is not in of itself depression.
Yeah I think a lot of 4chan has other mental issues (often failure to launch or other sociodevelopmental problems, maybe not even innate or biological) that results in a shit life and being miserable and so they think they have depression when the reality is their life just sucks.
I donât have depression but Iâve been in a bad place in life, when I improved my life or got what I needed I felt better. And sometimes itâs other issues that can look a lot like depression. But those of us like that need to remember yâall because what worked for us wonât work for yâall,
OK, but this is fiction. Someone made Mr. Robot up. There's no gatekeeping here because there's no real person trying to be recognized for their MH problems.
however implying because this fictional character has sex and has a good job means your depression is somehow âlessâ is problematic; fictional or not
i have a well paid job and have plenty of sex, but my depression is very much real⌠to someone in my situation struggling with working out their mental health, the kind of sentiment on display might make me reconsider whether my problems are âbig enoughâ or whether i should âjust get over itâ or that âother people have it worse so my feelings are invalidâ
fictional or not, the situation has parallels to real life, and real people are in similar positions. the damage is in reinforcing that their problems arenât worthy of mental health support, and i can absolutely tell you that in this situation, acknowledging that youâre worth the support exactly because your problems seem trivial is a huge issue
Speak for yourself. I've never seen a movie or read a book that so succinctly captured exactly how my mind works before. It actually scared the shit out of me, stopped watching the first episode because I almost had a panic attack. I both realized I've never seen someone else process things the way I do and seeing Mr Robot was like looking into a mirror. It was terrifying, but I quickly got addicted to her show.
It's almost like the point is to show that depression is a thing that's not very well treated by having super cool things happen in life. That's the scary thing. Being successful, but still not being enough for yourself. Having friends having lovers, but still feeling like you're not worth the time of day. If everyone with depression only suffered from SLS, depression would be way less compelling and way less prevalent.
Incel logic: "Everything wrong with my life is because I don't have a woman, if only I had a woman things would be alright."
What they don't realize/refuse to understand is: no, they wouldn't. That's not how it works. It's just this conspiratorial-mythological story they tell themselves and each other.
Which (late spoiler alert) actually explains anon's apparent misunderstanding. The master developed as Elliott's protector, and that alter would naturally need to be avoidant while also being high functioning.
I thought it was one of the better Hollywood portrayals of DID, actually, at least from my understanding of the condition. He's not violent like the characters in "Split" or "Identity", just like the vast majority of DID sufferers, and the roots of his behavior are tied to his childhood sexual trauma where DID tragically originates most of the time.
You can still have a pretty good life and still be depressed my worst episode I was passing all my classes and picking up a new hobby and had a good part time job but I was still depressed. I started taking meds and the next day the crippling sadness was gone.
it's just standard hollywood bs, you gotta put some sex in there to keep people watching. it was just your mandatory pilot episode hornyness, forced into the show by the studio.
What about it struck you as unrealistic? There's a lot more going on with the main character besides anxiety and depression. Often, people with a history of certain kinds of trauma are actually hypersexual as a result.