It's World Mental Health Day and companies are posting pictures on social media asking to share it so that loved ones can see they care.
Sharing a picture to show you're 'there for them' doesn't help. I suffer from severe depression and nobody actually cares. Nobody stops and thinks how they can help me in any way. I could be dead in my house for ten days and nobody would even notice. Instead of sharing a picture on social media once a year, people should just pay more attention to people they know and stop hiding until this person is more 'cheery'.
In my experience, when you are in the deepest darkest hole and you see no way out, it is then that people distance themselves from you because they 'don't want that negativity' in their lives. Instead of helping, they just turn to other people who are actually bright and shiny. They let the doomed person suffer alone and don't return until this person has crawled out of that hole all by himself. But it doesn't take much for that person to fall right back in, when they realize nobody was there for them in time of need. Everyone just pretends they are supportive but nobody actually is. Can't be bothered.
