writing avoidance/random update
Feb. 27th, 2011 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_roseI'm supposed to be finishing up my h/c bingo extra; it's due tomorrow night. Naturally, I'm trying to find ways to procrastinate. I'm a bit graphics'd out, so although I've got icons to make, it's not happening right now.
My userpic extras run out in a few days and I can't justify the expenditure, [though it's minuscule in the scheme of things]. I've got a gifted paid account, so I get a total of thirty seven icons but that's one third of what I did have available so I've been reluctantly sorting out my icons, and updating a few of them. When the package runs out I should be at my quota so the icons I most want to keep are still available to use. My new default icon is a bit blue for my purple lj theme but it's a nice sentiment and a neutral icon overall.
Quick rant. I was doing a bit of research for the h/c bingo and came across a site with some 'do' and 'don't' things to say to someone suffering from depression. The 'do' things, apart from a couple of cheesy things, were sensible, caring things like 'You’re not alone in this', 'You are important to me' and 'I can’t really understand what you are feeling, but I can offer my compassion'.
The 'don't' things...I'm guessing these are actual or paraphrased things that people with depression have reported to the Depression Alliance who provided the information. Things like 'No one ever said that life was fair', 'Haven’t you grown tired of all this “me, me, me” stuff yet?' and the one that takes the biscuit: 'I think your depression is a way of punishing us'.
Who the hell says that to someone? Is the 'us' the speaker and the sufferer, and the punishment is from God? Is the 'us' everyone in the sufferer's life, except for the sufferer - making it sound as if they are deliberately being depressed in order to punish their loved ones? I can't get my head around it.
My userpic extras run out in a few days and I can't justify the expenditure, [though it's minuscule in the scheme of things]. I've got a gifted paid account, so I get a total of thirty seven icons but that's one third of what I did have available so I've been reluctantly sorting out my icons, and updating a few of them. When the package runs out I should be at my quota so the icons I most want to keep are still available to use. My new default icon is a bit blue for my purple lj theme but it's a nice sentiment and a neutral icon overall.
Quick rant. I was doing a bit of research for the h/c bingo and came across a site with some 'do' and 'don't' things to say to someone suffering from depression. The 'do' things, apart from a couple of cheesy things, were sensible, caring things like 'You’re not alone in this', 'You are important to me' and 'I can’t really understand what you are feeling, but I can offer my compassion'.
The 'don't' things...I'm guessing these are actual or paraphrased things that people with depression have reported to the Depression Alliance who provided the information. Things like 'No one ever said that life was fair', 'Haven’t you grown tired of all this “me, me, me” stuff yet?' and the one that takes the biscuit: 'I think your depression is a way of punishing us'.
Who the hell says that to someone? Is the 'us' the speaker and the sufferer, and the punishment is from God? Is the 'us' everyone in the sufferer's life, except for the sufferer - making it sound as if they are deliberately being depressed in order to punish their loved ones? I can't get my head around it.
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Date: 2011-02-27 07:15 pm (UTC)