Thursday, 9 March 2017
Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
I don't think ppl understand the ll that we all go through thing 
differently.   I always hear "well I had anxiety, I got through it" or "
 we all get depressed,  get over it".  And it really pisses me off bc 
these ppl making theses statements have no idea what it's like to have 
empathy.  Some things roll off our backs and some things we cannot 
shake.  I get so pissed when ppl say oh what's the big deal,  get over 
it.  I think they are literally too emotionally moronic to understand 
that concept,  so let me break it down.    
Say you have 2 fish, in their own
 bowls with same amount of water.  Now image that every time something 
negative happens in your life,  you remove a spoonful of water.   
Someone dies,  lose you job,  fight with a friend, money troubles, 
health problems etc.... Each spoonful can really add up and now this 
fish is left with a depleted bowl to live in, making things harder for 
him.   Now when someone says well I got over it just fine,  you should 
too it's like taking a spoonful of water from the full bowl.  It's just a
 spoonful,  you won't even notice.  But take that same spoonful from 
that bowl with barely any water in it.  That spoonful if going to have a
 bigger impact on that poor fish already struggling to survive then the 
fish in the bowl that's full.    but here the fish in the full bowl 
swimming around saying I'm fine,  you should be too.  Like wtf?  Can't 
that fish see that it doesn't have the same amount of fucking water? 
 No, bc 1) they are fish  and 2) mostly importantly they can't see 
beyond their own bowl.   
Labels:
anxiety,
compassion,
depression,
empathy,
fish,
mental health,
mental illness,
recovery,
shitty people,
stigma
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