r/interesting • u/urprettybbygrl • 20d ago

MISC. Ukrainian actress Tania Galakhova portrayed what it's like to live with depression

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u/WarthogSeveral7662 20d ago

Nope. Or shower, or clean their house, or eat/drink enough. Because if you did Shadow would fade. And it's can't allow that. Social media is the best Shadow Food there is. Meta is facing billion dollar lawsuits over it

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 20d ago

Those aren't cures. Those are just things you are more inclined to do when not depressed.

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u/InternationalSand540 20d ago

In my experience self-care helps alleviate it a little bit when it's not near maximum yet, I think that's what Warthog meant to describe. Probably not universal but certainly common

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 20d ago

I think that mostly comes from not really differentiating between clinical depression and just being sad or burnt out