Telling Others When You Feel Depressed

[roxy222]

Personally, I think that the feeling of being depressed has been generalised too much by people who don't suffer with it and have no idea how it feels to be depressed. It's used to often if the shoes that you want aren't in your size, your depressed. Or if its raining, your depressed.

So when you actually say to someone "I feel depressed" some don't take it as serious anymore.

Id agree with that, a bit like the word 'stress' too. I met someone on here a while back that found the dx "Post Traumatic Stress" invalidating because it had the word stress in it, which to them felt like work hassles and stuff like that. I could well see where they were coming from. Traumatic stress is different of course, but the word itself had come to be watered down, just as depression has.

that makes sence, and also stress is one of these things thats spoken about in terms of positives also, like alittle bit of stress is motivating, which in light of post traumatic stress is just incompatible