Anybody got a sense evil spell prepared?

Everybody check your trinkets and see which is glowing. We need an ID on this creature before initiative.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13163168

Go reread the person I responded to before you entered the conversation. They said their depression was caused by an external factor. That is who I replied to, and the reply you've been desperate to strawman ever since.

You get me.

At what point did I gatekeep depression by agreeing with someone else about their diagnosis?

You're being a little ridiculous right now.

For the second time, stop trying to turn my reply to someone else into a blanket statement. I understand picking needless fights with strangers on the internet qualifies as dopamine seeking behavior. Maybe you should be looking inward.

If I wasn't at work I'd edit the goose meme to match.

This is precisely the pedantic reply I expected.

Laymen differentiate between addressing things in their environment that cause increases in things like norepinephrine by the cause, environmentally, and not by the resulting chemical release in the brain.

Referring to both chemical treatment, such as taking medication, and environmental treatment, such as quitting a job that causes you stress (or depression, as in the conversation above) as "chemical" is the kind of nitpicky BS that would only further obfuscate the discussion, serving absolutely zero purpose unless you were the type to want to start a fight over nothing.

You may as well refer to everything the brain ever experiences as "chemical." It's would be the most literal interpretation, and would serve zero purpose as a method of communication. Much like your conversation with me.

Don't reframe my statement addressing someone's specific situation into a blanket comment. That person said their depression had a reason (that could be addressed, and once addressed, the depression was resolved.)

Speaking to that instance, it probably wasn't chemical, because if it was, it wouldn't have resolved with action taken independent of chemical treatment, but only with a combination.

I am not the person to try and strawman about depression.

If your depression is for a reason, then yeah, probably not chemicals.

Mine is treatment resistant major depression and very much chemicals. Took me until I was in my midthirties to find the solution. There's hope even for people with bad chemistry!

This only works if you have a set schedule.

I have a schedule at work that shifts randomly from morning to night and this resulted in me forgetting my meds for my Monday shift. So many errors...

"I made fun of everyone."

Did he make fun of Trump supporters? Or... white people in general?

I want to add, get in the habit of helping people and never telling anyone. Every day is a good day to practice helping people around you and not getting caught. Help someone take in their shopping. Help a stranger jump their car. Help an unhoused person get groceries. The less you hear strangers, friends, or family saying they saw you help someone, the more you'll know you can do it in the future, when being seen is dangerous.

I do... a lot to help people. As often as I can. And every time I get zero recognition, I know I passed a stealth check.

Also, remember, if you're helping someone and someone else asks what you were doing, now is a time to practice obfuscation.