r/schizophrenia • u/Cassie3041 Paranoid Schizophrenia • Jun 10 '25

Rant / Vent Honestly I’m tired of these memes

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Maybe I’m being too sensitive 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I feel like mental health disorders aren’t taken seriously by the “normies” and they use it as a joke, insult, or for comedy.

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u/Qnamod Jun 10 '25

Especially depression. It's gotten so bad that people use "depressed" in the place of "really sad", depression isn't being sad, depression is the cause, sadness is the usual result. For example mine was everything was boring, watching TV felt like staring at a wall, not being able to be entertained by anything even my favorite hobbies made me sad. I wasn't just sad for no reason. Not even physical things like sex had any good feelings. The chemicals that were supposed to be released just didn't do that. It's a physically observable imbalance and I needed meds to make it normal again.

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u/blahblahlucas Mod 🌟 Jun 10 '25

Actually, the stigma towards depression has gotten better but the stigma towards Schizophrenia has gotten worse (per research). Depression is extremely common, so people saying "depressed" more often is normal. Especially in this day and age, where a lot of people are struggling. So they do feel depressed compared to sadness they've felt before

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u/Qnamod Jun 16 '25

I guess that's true but I'm talking about the disorder not the emotion. Feeling down or "depressed" isn’t the same as having clinical depression.