#help depression

[chymer-x]

The anxiety...

*cough-wheeze*

It's... killing me

[su9busren]

someone get me to eat plz

[com4tableinyourskin]

[koffiewriting]

If you see someone’s drowning and is too weak to move their feet. Would you jump in the water and instruct them how to swim with the hope that they can help themselves out from the deep? Or would you just grab their hand and pull them up?

You see, this is a logical analogy about dealing with problems like depressions. What depressed people want most is someone who really knows what they feel.. Why? Why they feel heavy at heart and how could such a huge emotion could stay in it for so long? 

Don’t start to wonder, because you won’t find an answer. Because simply, they are not you. You are not them. 

It must have hurt so bad regardless of the length of the scars. If it didn’t hurt, it wouldn’t have been painful. 

You’re not there to measure how long their scar is or how many of them, and make a calculation on how many stitches they need. You’re not there to tell them they’re wrong. You don’t tell a scar to stop bleeding. Scar can’t hear you.  

If you only come to bring bandage to close their thought, you must have put it on the wrong place, because it’s their feeling that’s hurt.

I hope you don’t make a judgement to a depressed person.. because it will only make them drown even deeper. They don’t need your sympathy. Because sympathy doesn’t make you understand a depth of a scar. 

But a sincere empathy does.

I hope you never hand them a ‘how-to’ guide and ask them to study it because chances are, many people have handed them those books. 

I hope you sit there beside them and maybe.. maybe.. dare to try wearing one of their shoes? Perhaps if their shoe makes their foot hurts, it might hurt your foot, too?

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[celiacandthebeast]

(via Cure Depression - Going Gluten-Free)