i bet a lot of you on here that say you're depressed, really

I agree so much with this. People love to fake pain and being sick and being depressed, because they think its being unique, but honestly its just annoying and plain insulting to all the people who struggle with mental disorders and depression every single day. Tumblr has a serious problem promoting and romanticizing depression. do you ever see young people who ever say happy, healthy things on Tumblr? hardly ever....its always "poor me, my life is so dark, i am so edgy and poetic because of my problems" it gets on my nerves because i actually struggle with mental illness and depression myself, and no for a fact its not poetic or beautiful to be so sad that you hate yourself and so sick that you want to die sometimes

I too suffer from mental illness. And it's not fun.

Quite possibly, but this quote likely won't effect many of the people who are "faking" (possibly without knowing they don't follow the definition of depression), while hurting others who aren't faking at all.

I just hate people faking real diseases. I in fact have bipolar disorder so I can take offence to people who are faking mental diseases.

Oh, I see your point of view now (which is not how I initially interpreted it).

I'm not quite a fan of it either, to be honest. But I guess if people are faking it, I think they often don't realise they are and are just looking for a way to stick a label on how they are feeling, whether they are truly [insert adjectival form of mental disorder/disease here] or not. So...they're still not in great places themselves.

Labels. Why do people want to be labeled for such a horrible disease or disorder

Why do people want to label themselves as part of the LGBTQ+ community when there is such oppression to it? I spent forever trying to find a label of that sort for myself because "straight" was never right. I didn't want the erasure that comes with my specific label, but at least I had a word to explain myself.

Similarly, I guess people think that what they are feeling is not what "mentally healthy" or whatever emcompasses in their mind, and they want to find a word that fits.

Here's a word: sad. You're sad. Something happened you're upset. We understand. But until a doctor officially says "you have clinical depression" you do not have the authority to say you're depressed. If you have depression you should be taking medication for it. Not on a social network getting "help" from strangers.

I know. I agree completely, actually. Sad is the word they should use. I suppose that word, they feel, doesn't fit them, because they think sadness is more temporary and fleeting than what they're feeling.

(That, I don't think, is their fault. I won't really get into it, but there's this theory that media makes it so we feel subconciously that sadness is aberrant.)

So, if it is more persistant than a few days will allow, they think there's something wrong with them.