Woman Suffering From Depression Shares How Her Boyfriend Handles It In The Most Amazing Way

Mental health is a serious matter of concern in today’s world as people are taking it more and more seriously. However, mental illness is still treated with a lot of taboo because people who suffer from depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses are still told that it’s all in their head.

Depression is an ugly monster and brings with it low self-esteem and self-loathing, not to mention the constant self-consciousness that follows you everywhere. Unfortunately, you can’t really see it but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Very few people have the sensitivity in them to deal with a person suffering from depression and actually make them feel better. Fortunately, Imgur user RoastedIguana has such a person in her life and documented a particular morning when her depression got the better of her. She posted this photo,

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Story behind the picture: (I swear my bedroom is not as gross as it appears here) I’ve been clinically depressed for 13 years, once in a while I can’t even get myself to get out of bed, no matter how hungry I am or how bad I have to pee. Today is such a day. I was up but went back to bed.
Eventually, my boyfriend came looking for me. Told him(mumbling cause I’m too exhausted to open my mouth) I want to cancel what we had planned for today and just stay in bed. He asked if I wanted tea, said no, he made tea anyway. Then the madness began.
Placing the tea on the table at the end of the bed, me buried under blankets and pillows, he asks if I want the curtains closed. I say no. He closes them anyway. He asks if I want him to fill up the hottie. I say no. He fills it anyway and throws it under the blanket. He asks if I want my onesie. I say no. He throws it over me anyway. He asks if I need anything else. I say no. He places a poster roll on top of me and leaves the room.
He comes back and adds my boot. I freak out bc he just put a dirty boot on the blanket. Then he comes back with a frickin chair and puts it on the pile, under which I am buried. At this point, I can’t help but laugh. He leaves the room and comes back with a pen.
Then he brings me a light bulb, saying I need to lighten up. Then he comes back with a bill over 300€ saying „un-bill-eavable.“ Next, he brings a knife saying that sometimes it’s better to cut some corners.
In the end, he brought the cat, put her down on my head and left the room saying if I needed anything else I have to scream really loud. I didn’t have to scream, cause like half an hour later I was able to get out of bed. I drank my tea while writing this bc I felt like sharing it with someone.

 

The only thing a person with depression needs is your empathy, not your diagnosis. She is truly one lucky girl to have such a compassionate person in her life. We wish there were more people like the man in her life.

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