Stupid Facebook post about depression

[Reluctant2ndtimer]

I have just copied and pasted this because I’m staggered that anyone can really think mental health is so simple. This friend is genuinely a lovely person and has been through some shit times in her life, how on earth does she think like this?
I’m struggling with my own mental health right now and I’d love to be able to ‘change my way of thinking’!

Controversial Some people will hate this post & maybe begin slating it (me) behind their phone, some people will embrace it and it’ll encourage them to have a little think.. I honestly don’t believe in depression, I have never had a health professional be able to tell me what it is, I was put on anti depressants when I was in school & even then I knew this was wrong, all because I had a wobble & thought bad things. I think bad things now but I’m far from ‘depressed’ Medication is there to mask the ‘problem’ not solve it, it’s to change your way of thinking, but why can’t you change your own way, after all they’re your thoughts.. why has a doctor who sees you for 10 mins got the ability to tell you you’re depressed & prescribe something so mind altering.
You altered your own mind into thinking this way, re-alter it. Stop thinking things on the outside have the ability to change you on the inside.*

Bold fail.

Ah, the think yourself well cure.

Fuckers.

Sorry, it's just ignorance. Never mind the massive chemical imbalance in the brain and the hormonal response of the body. Never mind trauma causing long term issues.

Ignore if you can, but note that this person doesn't understand depression.

You’re right, it’s a daft, unhelpful post. I’d hide it and try and forget about it.

why can’t you change your own way, after all they’re your thoughts..

If only it were that simple!

Yep. Total load of fucking bollocks. It's like being told that you can get rid of your diabetes or epilepsy just by 'thinking positively!'

Just keep scrolling past it. For every idiot like this, there's someone who really understands.

That is staggering. I'm sure there will be a few people on her friends list reading that open-mouthed, wondering what she was thinking.

I agree tablets are given out way too quickly, I've experience that my self. Was given tablets, didn't take them , did lots of self help and exercise and my mood lifted. Tbf I probably had a bit of PND.

However my mother is 55 and has been very poorly with metal health issues. Tried to hang herself, sectioned a few times All her life since 14 she has been medicated . It's only now after a very rough time she seems stable. No amount of positive attitude garb ever help or would.

I can see a tiny point in the crap post

I replied saying if only it was that simple and she replied saying it’s as simple as you make it ❤️
I’m thinking she’s fucking simple!

I’d unfriend her.

I can't be doing with the idiots who peddle this shit!

You can't argue with stupid I wish positive thinking would get me out of bed in a morning or stop me having panic attacks thinking my baby would die if he left the house.

Medication got me to a place where I was able to access CBT and counselling. Without it? I don't want to know

I wouldn't be able to stop myself from telling her exactly how daft that all is. Someone's Wrong On The Internet would definitely take over.

I'd just reply 'well, you're wrong'.

She got any alternative therapies to offer nothing compliments think differently like crystals and reiki. Evil modern medicine trying to increase serotonin/dopamine production

Unfriend her and what Grouchy said. Fair play for holding your tongue

One of my "friends" posted a link to an article saying that watching Peppa Pig caused autism

I have 2 children with autism.

I couldn't be arsed getting into a facebook argument about it, so I just unfriended her. I have zero tolerance for idiots like that.

I’d really struggle not to reply to something like that with something incredibly sarcastic. Probably best to just hide it and move on, though can understand where you’re coming from OP.

People really are idiots sometimes.

That's a new one, softmachine. Can say I'm a fan of Peppa Pig but that's rather far fetched.

Unfriend!!! Although I’d possibly give her an ‘education’ if I was in the right mood! Stupid woman

What a load of bollocks! If she could think herself better it's far from depression she had. Drives me bloody mad this shit!

I’m embarrassed to say I had a similar view point to hers until I developed post natal psychosis after my first. Sadly people won’t realise the full impact of mental health unless they experience it first hand either themselves or through a family member.
Will agree that anti depressants are over prescribed.

Reply with this meme.

Oh bless her cotton socks

Perhaps asthmatics can think themselves better; afterall, they’re their lungs

Or cancer sufferers can think themselves better: what’s a tumour when you have the power of positive thought?

Stupid fucking bitch obviously doesn’t have a clue. Delete and block op - some ignorance just can’t be cured

Blue I LOVE that meme

Think yourself well.
Ok.
I no longer have asthma.
My eczema has disappeared.
I do not have depression or anxiety or OCD traits.
Well fuck me. I could've saved the NHS a shitload of money if I had only figured out earlier my name is Jesus and I can heal myself.
Or not.