A Depressive With a Megaphone

I am sick to death of people who give simplistic solutions to long-term serious mental illness. Even good-hearted people ignorantly do this. I have been told: Yoga will cure your depression Meditation will cure your depression Diet x will cure ALL mental illness Supplement y will cure ALL mental illness This medication will cure your depression Running will cure your depression You just need to... Therapy z will cure all your problems (CBT is included in this list) People need to grow up and realise that mental illness (even the same mental illness such as depression) has multiple causes. Some depression will be mostly genetic, some will be mostly upbringing, some will be mostly based on someone's current environment, and for many people a mixture of all these. Even professionals haven't woken up to the realisation that the causes are often varied and complex, as are the solutions. Most people peddling a solution is after money or has been taken in by some cu...

Overview: Some people are toxic to most people Some people are just toxic to us (due to incompatible values, or they just treat us badly) Some good people sometimes do toxic things (ourselves included) I had an experience recently where an old friend needed a lift from me. He was willing to pay, for my trouble. I haven't seen this friend much in the past couple of years. On the few hours I spent with them, I learned that they have changed for the worse. They have become rude, disrespectful and arrogant, and have derogatory views about people with mental illness. He probably fits in category 2. above, although I suspect he agitates and puts down all the people in his life. I heard him being derogatory to his grandmother. Strangely, he dearly loves her, but is unaware of the way he puts people down. I sent him some messages to tell him what I thought. This can probably be considered unwise, and in many ways it was, however in the past when I've bottled things up, I...