One of our good friends suffers from depression, he has put it out there on facebook and talks quite honestly about it which seems to be working for him. A lot of people suffer from it and are ashamed, the more people talk about it the better

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My girlfriend suffers from bipolar and doesn’t tell many people because she says she feels ashamed.

I understand what you feel. Hope you get well soon and have a good time with your kids.

It’s awful that people either don’t want to know, or think that they can’t help. There is definitely a stigma attached to taking meds. A friend of mine says that if your leg was broken, that you would use crutches until your leg was better, so why should medication be any different?

I fully understand, the kids cop it, hubby cops it and it feels like it never ends. Also Medicare only give you 10 assisted appointments a year. And it take more than that with the psycologist. At $140 per session it is not easy. But I feel most people feel like that you can’t see it so nothing is wrong.

I think the reason why many people dont tell others they have depression is of the stigma attached to it. I know when I told some mums from my mothers group they stopped inviting me to get togethers and I never got emails of catchups. When I would sms them about catching up they never responded. It was only years ago that I saw one of the mums and she suffered depression. She told me the mums couldnt deal with my depression as they were having a good time with their babies and didnt want to know about it. This shut me down and I dont divulge this in fear of being treated the same again. i think because it is a mental illness people think you are crazy and who wants to be thought of as that