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MikkiMarie — Get Over It
Published: 2013-06-22 22:02:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 14794; Favourites: 961; Downloads: 23
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“You’re just sad.”“Suck it up.”
And the worst?
“Get over it.”
I’m not just sad. I suffer from depression
Waiting for happiness’s resurrection.
I can’t just forget it, it’s in me for good
I can’t do the things that I know I should.
I’m not just sad. I’m broken. I’m lost.
I’ve tried everything to fix it, no matter the cost.
I’ve carried a blade just to hold to my wrist.
I’ve carried a dream inside of my fist.
I’ve talked about it, like they say I should do
But all my efforts are stopped by ignorant people like you.
“You’re just sad.”
“Suck it up.”
And the worst?
“Get over it.”
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Exactly. Depression is far more than being sad and we can't just get over it.
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As I said before, I love this, but I was just thinking about maybe your capitalization and punctuation should match up. This line, for example, is preceded by no punctuation mark, so perhaps it should be a lower case letter in the beginning? "Waiting for happiness’s resurrection." It's purely a stylistic thing for poetry (read: optional) but I think it can change the rhythm that people read it in, so it's something to consider.
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I hope that you beat you're depression soon... I find that reading the Bible tends to make me happier, maybe it could raise your happiness a notch (I hope that I don't sound offensive or insensitive...)
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Very true, depression is not a choise! What a touching poem! - but if all "my efforts are stopped by ignorant people like you", maybe i think it would be best to start on a new. But maybe try moving away, or getting a new job, getting new friends who can help; Real friends, who do not say "Get over it." but who actually care and help, who make you laugh and smile, and cry. Who will come over with chocolate (or orea cakes) and bring a funny or sad movie to watch just for the hell of it! Really, finding the right friends are very important! 
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This is how I felt about a year and a half ago. But it never goes away. People do need to be more aware of people who suffer from depression. You can get help and you can try to get better, but the feeling haunts you. No one truly understands unless they are experiencing it themselves. This isn't a choice - it's a side effect - a result.
I'll stop ranting now. But I just had to say something.
And thank you for posting. This is beautiful and truly art. Thank you.
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Ugh, this is how it goes, isn't it? That and "you're faking it for attention." Um, nope.
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This is a beautiful poem I love it
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Hell Yeah
that is a nice piece of text with a pinch of life wisdom You've got there
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This is lovely poetry. (UGH, I CAN'T POET)
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Yeah, I sometimes get really upset for no reason~
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Pain is honest. Pain wont lie, Pain hurts whether its sunny, whether its raining or anything...
Pain is the evidence of the hurt you've survived...
Don't put away what will boil over anyway.
I understand , and you shouldn't feel silenced. Your pain is real.
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Love that, it's not something that be helped, it just seems to spiral downward.
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I agree. Most people say things they don't understand anyone else's life.
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so true, someone once told me i wasnt trying to stop it. that really hurts.
good written, i like your poem
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Thank you so much.....someone who actually has a brain.
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I know right...............................
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That and "Your life isn't that bad!"
Heard that one too many times...
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Depression is not a choice. On another note, Depression is not a disease, a syndrome, or a disorder. YOu can't treat it with medicine that is more likely to cause thoughts of suicide rather than treat what it should. There is only one cure to depression.
Depression is not a choice. It is an automatic result of a lack of joy, happiness, or whatever people long for. Sure, these people are no more "special" than us, but they are certainly not below us. To ignore how they feel and what they want or need is wrong. Do to others as you would have them do to you. Depression is the result of social collapse. We need to help stop it.
Depression is not a choice.
Happiness is a choice.
We all must make the choice.
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I happy you posted this, Its great to know im not the only one who is just told to "just get over it" Like its really my decision.
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Girl, I totally agree. I feel the same way. <3
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Here's my thoughts on it.
Yes. Depression is a bad thing and should be treated.
HOWEVER! Time to play devil's advocate/ look at the other side of the equation.
When most people come on to deviant art, they aren't coming onto hear some emo teenagers whine about their lives. Now why do I say whiny emo teenagers? Well.
At first when you see someone depressed on deviant art, you care, you feel bad for them. You don't see them as some whiny person. AND THEN you see it again. And again. And again! And again! AND A FRIKKEN-GAIN!!!!
At that point you lose any sentiment you had for these people. They all become one big ball of emo whinyness that you want to go over to and slap, all while screaming "guess what you whiny little bitch! You ain't special! Get over it you annoying little piece of garbage!" By the way, doing that. Not a good solution. At all.
It really doesn't help that these people's complaining gets on the front page. From what I've seen, most people come here to see art, not the issues of other people. Seeing what space that could be used for a good piece of art used for someone's ramblings, that annoys people.
TL
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This makes a good point, there are also people who choose not to try to change things, but rather stay depressed. I'm not talking about those with long term, clinical depression where the brain chemistry isn't quite right, but rather those in a shorter depressionwwhere there are things you can do to lessen the effects and duration. Some people have an illness which isn't easy to treat, others have a depression that they can start to work their way out of. I had one of those after I moved a few years ago: I was miserable and didn't want to do anything, but actually getting a job started to address that. I'm not perfectly happy (who is?), but I can find happiness again. Sometimes it is forcing yourself out of your comfort zone and that shouldn't be ignored. Not everyone just has to live with their unhappiness, but there is a culture online that discourages this and would rather present all depression as untreatable.
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Though over half the time those people aren't depressed, and just make a big deal out of everything and rant all the time because they find being depressed "Mysterious" or "Cool". I've actually yet to see someone who was legitimately diagnosed and has constantly used their mental condition as an excuse to be like that.
Some of my friends have done that for example. At first everything they did had to involve them being all emo and reciting depressing poems and monologues, aswell as making nothing but depressing "rant-art" with descriptions of nothing but monologues too, and worst of all(the point that I definitely agree with you on) would constantly go on about how people would "never understand their pain and agony", or that "their heart is like a dark void of despair" and all around flaunt their so-called depressed feelings until one day they got bored of the craze and were suddenly about as mellow as an everyday person.
Though on a side-note I have seen rant art that actually works, even if I myself have never seen the point in it, for whenever I personally draw something upsetting it just puts me off positivity even more, I'm more of a happy-art-venter myself. XD
Not to attack you or anything, but it just really sucks when people disbelieve or get annoyed with those that actually are depressed and are trying to open up just because some wannabe-teens try to look cool and use it like it's an accessory, as for emos being depressed is pretty much a choice that they make to be "special" as you've said before, whereas for people like myself it's something we have to deal with and doesn't get any better when people assume we're faking or making a big deal out of nothing even if we barely speak of it.
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Thank you. 
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I know the feeling... I get that... I have serious depression... No one understands the pain...
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Every time someone says stuff like that to me, I tell them to go say it to a cancer patient.
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I love this. The beautiful language mixed with the perfect rhythm makes this well thought out and structured poem an absolute jewel.
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Good poem ^^ And indeed, depression is not a choice. Now to teach that to the people around us...
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You got it! i hate it whenever some just says to get over it- even if you happen to find precious happiness its life is short lived
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oh my gosh. someone who finally understands. we dont choose to be depressed.
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"Getting over it" isn't as easy as people think it is, sure it's the way out, but you need some motivation to do so. Just remember there's still beautiful things in the world and there's still bonds you can't abandon and remember that you live for them.
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Depression hits me from time to time. To break it I have to spend a few days scanning over all options in my head, to figure out what that onnnnne thing I need to do is to break the cycle.
Basicly "What do I want to do? I want...." and not being able to finish the thought because all my interest in everything has drained.
But there is a way to know boundless happiness; Join the herd.
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Of course it's a choice. You're the reason you're miserable, sad is too weak a word to use for what someone can do to themselves. Hating everything, yourself - mostly - and seeing nothing but grey gets old, too. Just like everything else. You learn to control your emotions and not let them control you. Or maybe you don't. If you don't think you can you never will. And even if you know you can't, lie. Lie to yourself for long enough and something might actually change. The beauty of perspective is how easily it changes.
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Ah, as Clay Akin taught us: 'Simple solutions to complicated problems' One of my personal favorite tactics.
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We're the ones complicating things. I don't know why we're so obsessed with problems instead of solutions.
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You're right, people don't get it. I think you can't really understand unless you have suffered from it. I know that people who have loved ones with it can have an insight, but I really think it's something you can't describe to people, you have to really feel it, live with it. I'm having a good spell at the moment, and I'm no where near as bad as I was 5 years ago, but I know it will always be there. There will always be that desire to die just waiting for a slip in my circumstances. People should try to understand that it isn't a choice. Very well written, thank you.
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