talking to my dad about depression
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One day, I will most likely have this exact conversation with my kids.
This is why I'm adopting if I ever decide with my wife to be parents. Can't imagine the guilt of my DNA looking me in the eye and asking why "did you make me?"
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Yeah that's been me since I was like, 7.
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This is why I'm adopting if I ever decide with my wife to be parents. Can't imagine the guilt of my DNA looking me in the eye and asking why "did you make me?"
Look straight back and say, "cause your mum wanted to get rawdogged and forgot her birth control pills".
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It's a generational thing. Your dad's generation didn't talk about mental health, so there was no such thing as mental health. If you had serious depression, you were just weak and grumpy. All you could do about depression was soldier through it. Now we talk about it and it's more accepted. Now we actually try to tackle the problems of mental health instead of tucking it away.
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One day, I will most likely have this exact conversation with my kids.
Why bring them onto this world then?
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Parents: I'm depressed. I know what will make this better, putting another person on this planet that has a great likelihood of being as depressed as I am!
The gift of life.
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Get it? The punchline is having no will to live! Hahaha ...
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I'm the dad and you're gay, son
It's ok 2 b gay
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Get it? The punchline is having no will to live! Hahaha ...
I don't think that's a joke or a punchline.
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I don't think that's a joke or a punchline.
The joke? Life! Haha!
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau
That sounds romantc. If whoever said that was around today, they might see that the male loneliness epidemic is just a bunch of incel adjacents cowards crying about how society needs to sexually validate them.
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This is why I'm adopting if I ever decide with my wife to be parents. Can't imagine the guilt of my DNA looking me in the eye and asking why "did you make me?"
I know so many well meaning people who have said exactly this
Until the pregnancy test. And then they’re like “Let’s fucking DO it! We’ll be parents!!”
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Look straight back and say, "cause your mum wanted to get rawdogged and forgot her birth control pills".
“…and your dad refused to get a vasectomy” which is easy and reversible and quick-recovery
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One day, I will most likely have this exact conversation with my kids.
I know better than to add misery to the system.
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That sounds romantc. If whoever said that was around today, they might see that the male loneliness epidemic is just a bunch of incel adjacents cowards crying about how society needs to sexually validate them.
Loneliness != wanting sex.
Although I do agree that the "male loneliness epidemic" is a bit of a manufactured narrative.
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It's ok 2 b gay
There are two types of gays, actually.
It's ok to be the first type, but to be 4chan gay is not okay. Just as to be 4chan straight, 4chan bi or 4chan whatever is not ok.
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That isn't normal?
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau
What book is that from?
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It's a generational thing. Your dad's generation didn't talk about mental health, so there was no such thing as mental health. If you had serious depression, you were just weak and grumpy. All you could do about depression was soldier through it. Now we talk about it and it's more accepted. Now we actually try to tackle the problems of mental health instead of tucking it away.
Now we talk about it and it’s more accepted.
That sounds like soldiering through it with extra steps.
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It's a generational thing. Your dad's generation didn't talk about mental health, so there was no such thing as mental health. If you had serious depression, you were just weak and grumpy. All you could do about depression was soldier through it. Now we talk about it and it's more accepted. Now we actually try to tackle the problems of mental health instead of tucking it away.
TL;DR blue did not exist to some people. It still does not in some cultures to some degree. Want more tangible evidence? Torquoise. How many can properly name this color?
What I am getting at. If people lack cultural, vocabulary properties, some things will never even occur to them.
