• lobut
    55·
    2 days ago

    Reminds me of this

    “The Faces of Depression”

    poster of celebrities laughing and smiling: kurt cobain, chester bennington, whitney houston, mac miller, robin williams, philip seymour hoffan, chris farley, marilyn monroe, amy winehouse, chris cornell, ernest hemingway, lucy gordon, simone battle, layne staley, gia allemand, anthony bourdain

    I’ve been clinically depressed in the past. It’s a tough fight. Also, a mix of imposter syndrome of telling people I didn’t really have depression and then hating myself while being depressed …

    • okmko@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      I too have clinical depression and it was underdiagnosed for a long time. It doesn’t help that our world’s future doesn’t have a good prognosis itself, but it’s an internal factor anyway that gets exacerbated by external factors.

      Even with an SSRI+SNRI, it feels like a deafening sense of silent void for me.

      • Viceversa@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        Thinking depression means being sad is inaccurate. When you are depressed you feel empty, life lacks meaning and apathy sets in

        Depression comes in many flavours. Very often it’s not emptying, but the active feeling of desperation and or painful grief.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      2 days ago

      Robbin Williams case was a little different. He was losing brain functions similar to dementia and apparently he didn’t want to live in a diminished state. Bordain kinda surprised me. You think he would be the last person to kill himself since he travels the world, meets interesting people, and experiences new things.

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        I forget which of Bordain’s books I read, but it didn’t surprise me very much having read one. He seemed like a person trying to run away from it at all times.

        Very sad, loved the show(s) and book. I should go read more.

  • p0q@sh.itjust.works
    361·
    2 days ago

    This is a well thought out, poignant ad. I love it.

    Unfortunately it wouldn’t be understood by most Americans. I just showed this to my wife and she gave a blank stare. “I don’t get it.” And we have family members who fit this!!!

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 day ago

      Maybe that’s not a bad thing.

      The way the ad subverts your expectations and forces you to reach the conclusion yourself is a barrier to some, but also what makes it so special.

      Things we figure out for ourselves are way more memorable than things we are simply told.

      Perhaps not everyone gets it, but it has a far stronger impact on the people who do. For an ad meant to challenge expectations and change minds, that’s mission accomplished.

  • Phoenixz
    9·
    2 days ago

    We all know, Steffen, and we feel your pain, brother. We’re all there with you

  • lemonySplit
    155·
    2 days ago

    Text too small for both of them, unfortunately. Even fullscreen and sideways my partner couldn’t read the second bit.

    Edit: pro-tip to make any colour text more legible on varying backgrounds add a drop-shadow or drop-highlight to the text. (I’m talking HTML idk how memes are made)

  • DGen@piefed.zipEnglish
    114·
    2 days ago

    Thats about accurate af. Yet still people trying to undermine those issues - old white men ofc.

      • DGen@piefed.zipEnglish
        163·
        2 days ago

        I think you got me wrong here?

        What I was trying to say is that there are still a lot of people saying “there is no such thing as depression” - mostly from old white men, telling people to pull themselves together.

        • Godric@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 day ago

          It read to me like you were blaming the type of humans most likely to commit suicide for committing suicide.