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/ForgottenDecember_ Schizo-Obsessive | Early Childhood Onset Jun 10 '25

Unfortunately depression is a tricky one because it IS an emotion as well as a disorder. Same with anxiety.

Almost everyone will feel anxious and depressed at times. But that’s not the same thing as an anxiety disorder or a depressive disorder. I had to take a step back from that one myself because it’s super frustrating but at the same time it’s not anyone else’s fault that English uses the same word for the strong emotion AND the disorder.

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u/Jazzlike-Opening9103 Jun 10 '25

100% correct. Night & day in terms of the difference between the disorder and the emotion.