I can't stand people that look at their depression and decide they're already fucked and trying to do anything about it is pointless.

Before you read what I have to say, keep in mind that it's well within your power to disagree with me. I certainly am not trying to attack anybody with cancer. Okay?

Every so often, I find myself browsing the cancer subreddit. It is based around cancer, so it stands to reason that it would be a shitty place to visit and an even shittier place to post in. It seems to me that a lot of those people have already decided that they've failed. People younger than me. I'm 29, by the way.

I can't stand that line of thought. It's poisonous to them and to everybody around them. What do you expect someone with that line of thought to do? Make an effort to put their life together? Take steps to address their cancer outside of reddit? There are ways to beat cancer. You don't need meds. You don't need therapy. You certainly don't need love. You need to have an idea in your mind that you created this cancer and therefore it is well within your power to harm it. Go to the gym. Go for a walk. Christ, do something. Don't give up. For fucks sake, this is your existence.

I don't believe that those people are hopeless. I think that they've convinced themselves they're hopeless. Perhaps cancer has. If they were hopeless, they wouldn't post in that subreddit hoping somebody will take pity on them.

I completely realize that cancer is tough. I really, really do. If you're going through something, I don't know what to say to you. I suppose I'd ask you to fight. I'd ask you to stand up to this cocksucker that's decided it's going to try to kill you. The cocksucker in question is cancer, by the way.

I've said what I came here to say and now it's time for me to go back.

Take care, everybody.

Depression is a disease. It isn't a feeling. It isn't an emotion. It's a disease that has negative feelings and emotions as symptoms. Would you say the same thing you've said about a person with cancer?

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