Like a Ton of bad stuff has happened to me recently and I’m still like really happy and just love talking like I’ve never been depressed I was wondering if this is just like normal
Like a Ton of bad stuff has happened to me recently and I’m still like really happy and just love talking like I’ve never been depressed I was wondering if this is just like normal
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Yes. Most people do not have depression.
It’s all a part of growing up mate. Key is not taking stuff too close to heart. Use it as a lesson to grow.
Keep pressing on, kid. Depression is more of a long-logic problem, and you’ll probably be free from naturally occurring deep depression until you hit 25. Not that you’ll get depression then, but you’ll be more susceptible to the toxic overlap of harsh realities after you reach that age.
Definitely, it’s a part of life and a necessary part at that. You cannot experience or appreciate the highest of highs without going through some lows first. Ride it out, take what lessons you can from it, and you’ll be more mentally resilient next time life throws something at you.
Lots of people are able to cope with stress and challenge. Many actually thrive on it. It might not seem that way because the current cultural dialogue promotes fragility and acknowledgement of "trauma" and it’s both wiser and more polite for those of us who aren’t mentally and emotionally fucked up by just basic existence to keep our mouths closed while the wussies process their "pain".
Everybody is different and different situations will break them.
But in general if you allow the emotions flow when something bad happens, like loosing someone or being rejected or failing something important, you will have easier time moving on. If you suppress emotions this can backfire and you may end up reliving those situations in your head leading to depression or anxiety.
Also depends on your philosophy or approach to life. If you believe whatever happened to you is „unfair” then you’ll have a problem.
Myself I like to look at life as experience. Like I choose this life, this body, all good and bad that happens to me. I choose to have this experience, those emotions. It completely shifts the perspective and I focus on how interesting my life is instead how „successful” or „happy” I am, because it doesn’t matter, it’s not the goal, it’s all part of the life experience.
Oh the joy to be young again. I hope you hold on to this perspective as life has its ways of humbling all of us
Like sure
It often happens to me, when things are shit, there’s no point in adding to it. 🤷
Yea. In retrospect, for me I think it was that I had a decent security net to fall back on. For poverty stricken folks these bad things can be traumatizing because they are on the edge of total ruin. Also I think change and chaos are part of being a happy person. I’ve noticed real depression comes from stagnation more than turmoil. Part of the old human condition.
You’re still young. Trauma has a habit of catching up and slapping you like a pimp, eventually. You might not feel it today, or tomorrow, or at 25…. But at some point all of those memories are likely to flood back in.
At 16 was the craziest emotional roller coaster in my brain. It’s a scary age because the going off on your own is right around the corner and you’re becoming mature enough to understand the weight of that. I had dreams of pulling my own teeth out when I realized I was growing up.
The internet would wrongfully have you believe most people are depressed.