help I’m having emotions about a cartoon antidepressant trying to be useful

DID YOU GUYS SERIOUSLY GIF AN ABILIFY COMMERCIAL 

yes but look at it, it cares about her and just wants to help her be able to function. It’s like “I know you’re sad. here, I’ll help you.”

LIKE OKAY THOUGH can I explain why this is exceedingly brilliant??  Because when anti-depressants work right, that’s what they DO.  They don’t make you happy or emotionless or unhealthy in any way, they make you FUNCTIONAL.  They make it so that a depressed person who can barely get out of bed can start to support themselves again and more importantly, start to THINK for themselves again without the permeating presence of depression.

Depression is a cyclical disease, that tells you to think a certain way, and, because you’re depressed, you generally believe it, and then things get worse and worse.  The ONLY thing anti-depressants do is to STOP that cycle in its tracks!!  Which is something to be ecstatic about and celebrated, even if you don’t realize it at the time, because when you’re depressed, getting out of bed is climbing Mount Everest.  Antidepressants help stop that cycle so that one day soon, getting out of bed can JUST be getting out of bed.  They don’t even expedite the recovery process in most cases, they just make recovery POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.  So this little guy is portrayed with a fuckton more accuracy than I ever expected from a commercial.

It’s back and adorable

I always thought meds made you “happy” … until I went on them. Then I realized they do basically what the commenter above said… they just make it easier to function. 

It’s funny, because I knew people that ‘used’ antidepressants as a party drug under the assumption they made you ‘happy’.

Everyone thinks I’m overdramatic when I’m upset, but when an octopus gets stressed out, it eats itself. Now THAT’S overdramatic.

being chronically ill like

am i nauseous cause i didnt eat? because of something i ate earlier? if i eat will it be worse? better? am i gonna puke? am i just gonna dry heave till i cry? probably.

me: today is going to be good! 

my body: on the contrary, 

Congratulations to my friends and fellow spoonies who will still be able to have life-saving treatment due to the failure of the AHCA to pass. Thanks, Obama, for having our backs all those years ago. Keep fighting another day, y’all <3

In 2009, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania stated that Australian wallabies had been found creating crop circles in fields of opium poppies, which are grown legally for medicinal use, after consuming some of the opiate-laden poppies and running in circles

In case anyone is wondering, here is what said crop circles look like.

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Of all potential Crop Circle explanations, I don’t thing *anyone* saw “stoned wallabies” as a candidate, let alone the likely suspect.

Let’s just take a minute.

gentle reminder

you are so much stronger and smarter than you think; please try your best to remember that

Dear gentle reminder,

I don't think I'm smart enough to. And I KNOW I will forget it.

Sincerely,

Why is there lettuce in the freezer? And the cereal in the fridge? Oh shoot... I forgot what this reminder alarm was about.

Question time

Why are there no fictional characters with celiac disease???