I continuously get told depression isn't a serious illness get told it's just a mood or it's just a bad day, well for someone struggling as much as I already am, it's very hard to then here that it is just me being silly because it's "not a real illness" I don't know how to deal with people telling me this, because I try hard enough to hide that I suffer as it is so even letting them know I have it is hard on its own but then to feel like they don't understand and they don't I just can't cope with it. For two years I've been battling with depression, anxiety and PTSD, along with other stuff and recently I have lapsed with self harm, when trying to tell myself I'd get there one day at a time on social media I got "depression isn't an illness" I guess if you haven't gone through it you really are oblivious to how bad it can be. I am trying my hardest and sometimes people just make it harder with their arrogance, I have done a massive backflip since hearing it's not an illness and it's really hard to get out of headspaces. How do you cope when no body recognises that it's not just a bad day/week, how do you cope when people make you feel worse? How do you cope with people from day to day without lying about it or just trying to hide it? I don't want to hide it anymore I don't want to feel worse because of telling someone though. And I don't want to go through the pain of feeling like I'm pathetic because my mind won't let me think anything else when people tell you to grow up and get over it even though I know it's not that simple. How do you deal with this?
