I get disability for Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Without something like Lexapro I can turn into kind of a wreck. Even suicidal or suffering from panic attacks.

Does anyone ever feel like this isn’t a real disability? I mean, it’s not like I’m in a wheelchair. Sometimes I feel like I am cheating.

But there are others out there like myself. There has to be.

  • nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    We are the ones with ‘invisible illnesses’. They are every bit as real as a physical disability, or other organs/body systems not working.

    You don’t tell someone to ‘man up’ when they have diabetes, so why say it to someone who has a mood disorder?

    I feel your pain! Sometimes I feel like I’m ‘unworthy’ of being helped. I try to remind myself that it’s not my fault my brain doesn’t work right, and there are tons of people out there who have no issue helping people like me, like us.