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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
As a person with OCD and Depression, I can vouch for this. My antidepressant is great because it not only makes me functional, but it keeps me from functioning TOO much (OCD). A lot of people believe that mental health medications mess with your brain too much or make you dull and vegetative, but that’s largely false. If you take a very high dose of a drug that is meant to treat things like OCD, ADD, or ADHD, as your body uses and becomes accustomed to the drug, sometimes that dose becomes too much. The key is recognizing that, hey, I feel kind of slow. I feel like I don’t care about anything. I feel unwilling to do anything. And then, once recognized, talking to your doctor and knocking back your dosage. i did that just a few weeks ago. I’m a firm believer that if you need mental health medication, you should take it. Living with side effects (which, in most cases are rare or not very severe) or adjusting doses is preferable to living in worry or fear or endless sadness. I started out worried about being medicated because of the connotations with “medication.” It doesn’t make you a freak. You aren’t strange. You’re being HELPED. It really is going to help you.
But look how sad the anti-depressant is, he’s like “I know you’re not feeling well, we’ll get there, just take baby steps”
