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Your friends are sharing your struggles with you? Sounds like a great time to mock them for... Checks notes "caring about you" and "offering solutions that are both available and have scientific evidence suggesting they actually help".
This isn't funny it's just being a dick.
When people tell you depression is just in your head and to just be happy it is the most fucking infuriating thing.
That's not caring about you. That's downplaying your illness in a completely heartless and stupid way.
I kind of disagree with that being not caring about you. It's kind of more like they are helpless to help you, but they still want you to be better because they want you to be happy.
So, a lot of people default to giving useless advice. It is still an expression of care and love and support, just an ineffective one that is insulting and annoying to someone who's currently going through it.
I would much rather have somebody whom I've known for years tell me to try doing things that improve their mental health than to have nobody or for everyone to just look the other way while I am suffering.
It can definitely come from a positive place. I understand that. But it's massively insulting to assume they can just get over it and are choosing not to.