This Post brought to you by Starbucks, OK not really in the sponsorship sense, just in the complimentary electricity and WiFi. So this isn’t a sponsored post, but feel fee to click on my affiliate link for Starbucks and buy some KCups or whatever. This is really a follow on to my earlier post. I’m still at about an 8, and considering my favorite part of my favorite holiday (the fireworks) is canceled for tomorrow, I call that a win.
OK what this post is really about is other people and their reactions my coming out of the closet in regards to my mental health (the anxiety and depression). Now I use the phrase coming out of the closet intentionally since it is a similar type bias, Anderson Copper is all over the news today and of course I take perverse pleasure in people Googling Corey Feldman out of the closet.
So on to the post. Most people have been amazing. So supportive. Then there have been the ones that have also been supportive and secretly contacted me to let me know they are going through the same thing. But there is also a different group of people that have shied away from me since putting all this out there. Now if you are reading this post and you know who you are, I bet you think this post is about you, don’t you, don’t you. Well no, it’s not, not in the least. These are more people I would categorize in the acquaintance or socially friendly category.
A small group of these people have stopped talking to me. Or if they do, its usually initiated by me and brief as can be. I can’t figure out if they think anxiety and depression are somehow communicable, or maybe they just don’t know what to say. But part of me thinks at least for some, it’s disapproval. Not so much for having it, though that may be the case, but for talking about it openly. Now that could just be the depression/anxiety lying. But for those who just don’t know what to say, remember I am the same person today that I was a few months ago. I just know myself a little better.
Update – electricity has been restored
I think it is such a generous thing for you to share your experiences with depression. It helps so much to hear that you are not alone. I imagine you have helped a lot of people, including some that you probably don’t even know exist.
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Thanks Jean
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And you have given us an incredible insight into what you have been going through. For those of us who have never suffered depression or anxiety, it is an eye-opener (or, hopefully, a mind-opener).
Anybody who is either too close-minded, or too ignorant, to treat you as the Corey Feldman (not an 80s actor) that we knew before is not worth your worrying about.
Here’s to many “10″ days in your future!
Thanks Bill.
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This fascinates me because I have had the opposite experience. Just about everyone I know has either experienced depression or loves someone who does.
In spite of what some people might think, talking about these things is doing a service to others. Knowing you are not alone is a great relief.
And talking about it is also cathartic for you. Anyone who is really your friend will come around. Those that don’t aren’t worth your energy.
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Most people have been great. But there has been an obvious change in a few.
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