Many people live with depression and anxiety, every day. And for years, society in general sort of ignored our issues with mental illness, which ultimately only served to make it worse … it was only after we opened up and started talking about it did we all suddenly realize people with mental illness aren’t broken.
They’re human.
Popehat’s thread raising awareness about depression and anxiety is just really damn good.
Read it, trust us.
Oh hai.
I feel happy today. Maybe you don't. Maybe you've been depressed and anxious. I'd like to talk to you about it.
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness /1
— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
/2 I was talking to my dad yesterday and I realized that even though I've got plenty of tasks and challenges and problems on my plate, I feel good. I feel happy. It's not that they stop being problems, it's that I can survive them.
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness
— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
/3 The realization was remarkable. Not only was I feeling good, but it had stopped feeling weird or different to feel good.
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness
— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
/4 It wasn't always this way. If you'd told me four years ago that I could feel this way, I wouldn't believe you. The stuff on my plate now would have been unendurable. (Actually, anything would have.)
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness https://t.co/Xz2YLNPTN6
— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
So grateful to Popehat for his honesty here.
/5 So, if you're depressed, or anxious, or the very popular depressed AND anxious, I just wanted to say . . . there is hope.
You may not be able to see it from where you are now. But there's hope.
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness
— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
/6 I know hope isn't easy to imagine if you're depressed and anxious now. It takes a leap of faith. You have to reach out, admit you need help and seek it and accept that it can work even if you can't imagine it working right now.
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness
— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
/7 Will people judge or dismiss or mock you for being open and seeking help? Some will. Screw 'em. If they aren't being assholes about this, they'll be assholes about something else. Why run your life based on what assholes will say?
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
Don’t be surrounded by a*sholes.
/8 There can be a day when you wake up and think "wow, I've got a ton of things to do and work problems and financial problems and relationship problems, but . . . I'm okay, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow." You can reach that day.
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
/9 Take the leap. Ignore the voice in your head saying that nobody cares, that you're not worth it, that nothing will work, that you'll never be better. The voice is loud, but it lies. Talk to someone. Seek help. You're worth it. /end
#depressionawareness #anxietyawareness— YourFiveHatsAreUp (@Popehat) April 27, 2018
You are worth it.
Personal note – typically we editors here at Twitchy don’t write in the first person but eh, sometimes rules are meant to be broken. I have lived with anxiety since I was in grade school (I will be 45 in June), and depression has always been a flittering side issue rearing its annoying head here and there. Popehat is right though, the only way any of us can get through this and live happier lives is by accepting we can’t and shouldn’t try to face it alone.
It’s ok to get help.
And it doesn’t have to be a professional. It could come be a trusted friend, family member, or even some stranger on Twitter.
You’ll find people care and will listen.
Like me. I care, and I will always listen.
-Foo
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