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So, I have depression, I start getting depressed again after stopping medications.
Then my mother was like "Must be the evil spirits" and "You don't need medicine, you need an amulet to stop the evil spirits"
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No amount of scientific evidence can fix generations of stupidity and possibly lead poisoning...
This is why the world is so fucked.
Sure, let me have my mental illness back, thank you.
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You should stay on your meds. If they're not working, talk to a doctor about alternatives.
You also need to get away from your mother or family generally, curing depression often involves a whole life overhaul, and changing your environment.
You have to let go of the animosity and frustration you feel with your uneducated mother/parents using whatever swamp-voodoo witchcraft they were taught and never learned better. You will literally burn yourself and become as bad as them if you allow this to be a "force" in your life. So either learn to exist within their ignorant sphere and not let them in on your life and plans and feelings as you work on yourself and make outside friends and connections, or leave entirely.
We all have only two choices in life about anything. We can change our situation or change how we feel about it. Anything else is just validating our own unhappiness, and you don't have a lot of time to play that game.
Or get an amulet to stop the evil spirits!
Sounds like it runs in the family
Is there a gene somewhere that just add so much chaos? My older brother is a bigoted piece of shit. Like this just cannot be a coincidence.
Its either something genetic, or maybe lead poisoning.
I'm honestly starting to doubt if this is even real. Like maybe I'm on some twisted Truman Show or something and everything is part of a script. But then, this exact belief could another sign of "mental illness", assuming if this reality is real. I dont fucking know anymore. Lemmy could be all bots. π€
Itβs never really one thing. Always a myriad of variables that make people what they are.
But I will say, depression is not a disease in and of itself. It is a symptom of a larger problem. Till you can figure out what that problem is in you, you will forever be on SSRIs and tricyclics till the end of your days.