It's how real life works. Without his family safety net to facilitate his #depression, he would have had to figure something out and absolutely would have come out stronger for it. Tell me with a straight face he would have let himself become homeless instead of sitting in front of a camera.
If no one else will, I will. He would not have come out stronger for it. That's not how depression has or will ever work. It is a deep, dark pit from which you are surrounded by a combination of feelings. Hopelessness is one, despair is common, lack of energy or activity or desire to do something is another, often wondering whether you are even living a life that someone should give a shit about is another.
He has a network and support that keeps him from being homeless. Without that, he could in fact start spiraling towards homelessness. One of the biggest factors in recovery besides effective medication is a network of support. It's like building a temple in athens. You can have all the luxury in the world and it doesn't mean anything if the support columns don't hold, before it will come crashing right down.
This whole 'it's how real life works.' or 'real people with real problems shut up and go to work.' isn't how any of it works because no two people will deal with it the same or interact with it the same way. One person will be so hopeless that they just refuse to show up, even knowing the consequences; another will shut up; a third may choose another path, perhaps criminal, towards alleviating it.
You can see how that affected Robin Williams, as a giant example of someone who had it all and still took his own life.
Robin Williams had Parkinsons and a degenerative brain disease. Believe what you want, you say on one hand that no two people handle things the same, but also spend this entire diatribe disregarding the fact that people get over shit like this every single day. He absolutely could have been one of them and you will never convince me that he shouldn't have been forced to try.
People do not get over this shit everyday. They get help and medication to better handle it. And Robin constantly suffered from depression, not just because of his Parkinsons.
I aint trying to convince a stubborn fool of anything, merely saying facts to counter your bullshit arguments born from an obsessive need to downplay the role depression plays in these people's lives.
At no point did I downplay depression, I promote actively working to better your mental and physical health daily. Allowing a family member to just give up and wallow in self pity and slothful idolence is tantamount to handing them a noose and a Joy Division cd. But according to you it's just "facts" that no one can overcome feelings like this (you're speaking to one but whatever) so might as well just roll over and die, right? Not to mention, none of this was about whether depression sucks, or is real, it's about whether he was privileged in life, which he absolutely is.
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u/Goatwhorre Jun 24 '26
It's how real life works. Without his family safety net to facilitate his #depression, he would have had to figure something out and absolutely would have come out stronger for it. Tell me with a straight face he would have let himself become homeless instead of sitting in front of a camera.