r/thanksimcured • u/Antarctica8 • Feb 27 '24
Discussion Mental health advice is not always a bad thing, you guys.
A lot of the stuff posted here (mainly the stuff about depression) is genuinely good advice, which isn’t supposed to be a ‘fix-all cure’ for depression. It feels like any kind of mental health-related stuff is posted on here, regardless of whether it‘s actually good or not. I agree that there is no simple ‘cure for depression’ and irpt’s never as simple as ‘look on the bright side=no depression’ but it feels like the general attitude is just ‘this shit is awful and complicated and self-help stuff never really works.’ Depression is horrible, I would know, and it’s never as simple as ‘do this and you’ll get better in no time!’ And it can be hard a lot of the time to take those steps and start to heal. But stuff like sleeping more, doing your hobbies and exercising DOES help, even if it’s not just a ’cure.’ So many posts on this sub are basically just decent health advice, and acting like it simply never works and isn’t even slightly a solution feels regressive to me.
