Buzzfeed Video Teaches That Depression Isn’t Always Obvious
This is pretty powerful:
Cross-posted from my Sports Blog. I was looking at some of my online news sources for thing to share on my various sites when I came across an article written by a student interning as a sportswriter, Megan Armstrong, taking her battle with depression public. The part of the article that got my attention as…
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They all need to go, but this is the one that absolutely should never be uttered by anyone ever again! Myth # 5: “If you were only strong enough, you wouldn’t be depressed.” It’s just such a horrible, cruel thing to say to someone who is struggling. Thankfully, Psychology Today also gives us the truth…
I find Erin’s story interesting because I think it is easy to look at a teenager, especially one who’s not exhibiting the signs we saw on the TV news story about teenagers and drugs/depression, and assume “it’s just a phase”. It might not be: “I clung to the idea that mental illness came for other…