Depression: How To Get Someone to Understand?
9 years ago
General
So i don't understand why, but my family can not for the life of them, understand my depression or even what it means.
Does anyone know a good way of explain it?
I'm tired of trying to get it out and explain, only for them to either brush it off, tell me I can't be sa all the time, or the worse part, make fun of it.
I just need a way to get it out to them.
Mainly my mom and Grandma.
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They have sat in a room with me while talking about it.
Even years back when schools called them to tell them.
So at this time, I'm just going to assume they just don't want to deal with it.
I mean, I even get threats from my mom to call the cops if she sees the slightest hint of me being upset with her cause she thinks I want to just skill myself. Yes threat. Not worry. She glares at me with a mean look.
so idk. I'm ready to give up and just try to get away from all of the stress of dealing with them.
I got once a good explanation, but i try to get it work in english.
Every Person is an barrel, it shows how much stuff we can bare. There are some things that Fill the Barrel. and its gets heavier and heavier to carrym Like bad things that happened, but also genetic, and stuff.
And good things that happen...make holes in the barrel, so we can get rid of this stuff. The Problem is on this thing. Its not easy to get rid of this stuff, and people with depression aren't able to do that so easily, things that help other people can feel like a burden an fill this barrel instead of helping to making it empty.
So anything you do with depression is like you are carrying a big barrel full of stuff with you. Depression can have many symptoms, and only one of them are suicidal thoughts, maybe it could help to find one of this list, and usually you have a major depression when you have 8 of this symptoms, so you can explain your parents what symptoms there are and that this also means depression.