this needs to have a date on the before post.

Slightly fair. It wont get better on it's own. It is getting better coz we do things.

It doesn't get better for everyone, but eventually you give up on your dreams and go numb and lower all your standards and you can find a way to keep going. Just have to hang in there until your brain acclimates.

That's the most devious and hateful aspect of depression, the way it makes you believe with 100% certainty in a hopeless future. Like if you felt depression, but you also knew in your bones that it'd pass and you'd be back to a happier state soon enough, it wouldn't be anywhere near as dangerous. But it really warps your sense of reality. You will look back at your depressed self and wonder what the fuck they were thinking. But no matter how many times you go through it, you never remember how transitory it is the next time it hits you. Gotta leave yourself notes and essays to find when you're in the pits of despair, like the fella in the movie Memento 😆

I've never interpreted "Hang in there, it will get better" to mean "Wait and do nothing." I've always seen it more directed at kids who are being bullied more as a directive to "Do what you can to survive. Kids are assholes, parents might be dicks, but if you can make it to adulthood, you can find your people that will accept you for who you are."

It doesn't just get better though. It takes a personal overcoming. It takes effort and discipline, and it takes courage. It's painful. Rarely does the universe just hand you "better" on a silver platter. This kind of passivity is dangerous.

In the words of inspectah deck

Ready to give up, so I seek the old Earth

Who explained workin' hard may help you maintain

To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain

i am happy that Teto Vocaloid is no long depressed.

What if someone has been through numerous "getting better"