Hey Pandas, What's The Stupidest Thing Someone Has Said About Mental Health? (Closed)

"There's no such thing as "depression" - it's actually your lack of faith in god which brought the devil upon you." [facepalm]

My husbands aunt to me: "what are you depressed for? You have a hole and 2 beautiful children!" I was instantly cured ofcourse..
Depression runs in my family big time (An uncle, 2 cousins, my dad, brother and sister as far as i know struggle with it aswell). My sister told me she was glad my brother had depression, just glad he was feeling bad. What a b***h. I am NC with her since a few years and this is one of the reasons why.

“Just get over it”. Thanks. I never thought of that.

For the record, I have awful anxiety and get panic attacks. It was less severe in middle school, but those attacks could get bad. The school I went to was a Christian school, and we had to go to church. One time we were in church and I started having a panic attack. I guess I was making some noise, because one of our nuns pulled me outside and told me to "Stop overreacting, you're in the house of the Lord. You only have minor anxiety. Maybe if you sinned less this wouldn't happen." She said this to a 12 year old who had tears running down their face.

„The weather will get better soon - an the sunshine will make your depressions better too, you‘ll see!“ - after a talk about how exhausted I am after years of recurring depressions…

I have pretty sever anxiety and before I got medication for it i was just constantly stressed. It was hard for me to describe ,mainly because I barley knew, and it took me forever to talk to my parents. I had a friend who I would talk to A LOT but we werent exactly close. One time I told her I had finally gotten medication and she said "Why do you need medication? just like breath or something, its not THAT big of a deal" we ended our friendship the day after.

Ok, I know people say this a lot but come on, it's so dumb, when it comes to anxiety some people just say "Just don't think about it." Like it's that simple :L

" It's all in your mind "

I've been struggling with depression since childhood. My wife's aunt, who fancies herself an expert on mental health, found out and told me, "Everybody gets the blues from time to time."

"Why don't you just pull yourself together?" said with naked disbelief on co-worker's face, as if it were that simple and why hadn't I thought of it. I already had endogenous depression compounded by PTSD from workplace bullying. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, was suicidal and emotionally ravaged. Thanks for the support, Lisa.

Just calm down (anxiety) what 😦

You're 19. What do you have to be depressed about.

Which led me to a nervous breakdown age 28.

Had a family member basically tell me "Everyone gets anxiety, get over yourself." gee thanks.

I have ADHD, and similar to some others, but "Everyone has a little ADHD..." well does it disrupt your life daily!? also "Just focus more" I mean I would if my brain would let me.

I knew this guy who was a pathological liar, when I first met him, he was a "200 year old Vampire," if that tells you anything. He once told me that PTSD doesn't exist and is for the weak. He continued that he knows this because he's a "weekend mercenary" who travels to Afghanistan every weekend to... I don't know, shoot people? Seems redundant to add that this is not true. At all. Guy's a longshoreman.

Autism being caused by vaccines and/or x is the cure for Autism.

Keep lying to yourselves, people of Autism Speaks and anti-Vaxers.

Bipolar? Is that when you have one personality one moment and then a different personality another?

Had someone close to me insist that I had borderline personality disorder. Repeatedly. Aggressively. So I got into therapy and was told I most specifically did NOT have BPD, that a non-professional could not diagnosis that, and that my real issue was trauma response that had been kicked into gear by that same person's behavior and lack of dealing with their own traumas.

"Be careful what you choose to be diagnosed with" - my mom while talking about my cousin having PTSD after getting jumped for her cellphone on the street, dashing her goal of becoming a police officer. (Apparently.)

My sister waiting for their insurance to cover treatment for her husband's depression. I told her to get him help now! They had the money. He killed himself soon afterwards. .