#depression headcanons

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effects of the killing curse

Harry having severe fibromyalgia growing up as an effect of surviving Avada kedavra. He learnt to self-soothe because no one understands what he is going through and his “family” dismiss him. As he grows up he develops worse CPTSD and it makes it harder to deal with his fibromyalgia and he never really brings any of it up because he learned to internalise his pain both physical and mental.

After the second time, his muscles and nerves are even more effected giving him terrible gi issues and muscle weakness. He has to use braces and sometimes even crutches to make up for muscle and nerve dysfunction. His braces are super light and he can’t even feel them. His crutches are lightweight and change colours depending on Harry’s mood. He gets a broom with a back and places to put his feet so he doesn’t get too sore or loose his balance. Ginny and Ron still play quidditch with him even if he can’t be quite as quick anymore. His GI issues mean He has to eat a liquid diet and has severe food reactions. Even having to be tube fed for periods of time. But as he gets more sick he learns to open up to his family and friends and get help. The doctors don’t quite know how to treat these issues because they are resistant to normal treatments because they come from the killing curse.

But of course, his friends and family won’t put up with him being in pain. Hermione combined potion and medical knowledge to create chronic pain treatments. Neville knows so much about plants he comes up with some treatments to help with nausea and vomiting. George comes up with candies that help his mouth have some good tastes in it when he can’t eat much that doesn’t cause him to be ill.

And all of them now dealing with PTSD/Depression help each other out and his time dealing with pain allows him to be an emotionally supportive, partner, and friend.

Overall Harry will always be chronically ill but with the help of family and good healers he is able to manage life, even when he’s been dead twice.

(the person writing this is chronically ill both physically and mentally)

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Anything about Gryffindors with depression? Who laugh loud and remember wild, windy free times, but cannot feel it? Who want adventure and do it sometimes, and some days cannot leave the house?

Who are afraid to admit to their friends their perceived weakness? Who focus on the courage it takes to face each day and keep going? 

Who are often woken up by their friends so they don’t miss class because they can’t fall asleep until hours after they lay down? Who are often dragged to meals when they don’t feel like eating and then feel guilty when friends tease them because they can’t stop eating? Who sit in class after class but can’t concentrate or focus on any lectures or lessons and have to get notes and explanations from their friends? Who feel guilty because some days it seems like their friends are the only reason they aren’t failing school? Who sit there bored while their friends work on essays and then hyperfocus on finishing their homework at 3 am when they can’t sleep and that’s how they end up not sleeping several nights in a row? Who sometimes don’t get work turned in and sit through many detentions alone and struggling? Who spend nights in the hospital wing for exhaustion? Who can sleep all weekend and miss out on Hogsmeade trips even though their friends bring them stuff back?

Whose friends never give up on them? Whose trips to the hospital wing tip off Madam Pomfrey to the greater underlying issue? Whose teachers learn better ways to help them than detention? Whose Head of House checks in with them and their parents during the summer to make sure they’re doing okay? Who always return to a loving environment of support whether they’re going home or going to school?

~Mod C

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Miscellaneous mental health related HP headcanons

ADHD Ron suffers with hair pulling and scratching himself as a way to stim and help him concentrate. Hermione ends up teaching him spells to stop his nails from growing so he couldn’t scratch so much

Students at Hogwarts using the pensive after the war to help them reprocess traumatic memories

Wixen struggling with alcoholism being given a potion that works like naltrexone that they can spike their alcoholic drinks with to stop the calming affects of the alcohol, meaning that they drink less.

Teachers keeping quills and other stationary in their classrooms to make life easier for students who have poor executive function and struggle to get organised

House elves leaving checklists and motivational messages under the pillows of ADHD/depressed etc students

Students who are at risk of overdose having doses of meds being delivered to them individually each morning, so they have less chance of poisoning themselves

Harry suffering from phantom headaches after the battle of hogwarts, and having to take refuge at the Burrow when the headaches make him worry that voldermort has come back. Molly brings him hot tea and wraps him in heavy knitted blankets to help him ground himself and distract from the pain. 

Students in addiction recovery struggling with dopamine depletion having a window cleared in their timetables for exercise and animal therapy, and being given dopamine increasing potions that they are slowly weaned off of as they progress through recovery. 

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Draco with did, and he has a stutter. Genderless Luna is An autie in a relationship with hyperactive aspie hermione. Harry is severally depressed and psychotic. Neville offs a selective mute. They all live together.

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I like the idea of kids with social phobia/GAD/depression/etc having time turners for emergencies. If they're five minutes late for class and they can't possibly walk in at that point because people will watch it's okay because they can go back and try again. Or when they can't get out of bed in the morning because it's a bad day and things just aren't working they can sleep it off and go back so they don't miss out on important lessons. I really like that idea.

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Imagine a muggleborn who suffers with depression. In third year divination, they get the grim in their teacup. Sure, it worries them a little, but it really stands for the depression - the metaphorical big black dog that follows them around. Their boggart would be that same black dog. Learning to fight the boggart helps them to cope with their condition.

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professor sprout setting up a special greenhouse for wixen with depression that need the silence and comfort of nature to feel better!! soft pretty comforting plants, plants that snuggle or sing softly, plants with magical pollen that lifts your mood. professor sprout letting students come into the greenhouse to study on their own in their own comfort zone. professor sprout letting students take care of plants outside of classes because it helps calm them. therapeutic magical plants!!!

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ADHD impulsive Sirius, OCD Lily, Dyspraxic Peter, Depressed Lupin and Epileptic James.