Confessions of a Social Worker
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(via mirandasogreat)
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I recently found an old friend on facebook. I was thrilled. It’s so rare that I run across people from the past that I’m curious about and who had an impact on me. Cooler than that it turns out that he married a girl that I was best friends with in grade school so I was psyched to reconnect with two old friends. Woot woot a twofer! So here is where it gets disappointing. I go to checkout my old friends page and their it is “marriage is the union between one man and one woman”. I thought omg people my age believe this shit! Then I saw the multiple posts against food stamp programs and I thought so you only believe in some of the bible. Issues that might require you to give of yourself like poverty - you say hand outs are bad for people and pull yourself up by your boot straps. Issues that only require that you sit in judgement of others make it easy for you to take a stand - to bad your on the wrong side of history. For all those devout Christians out please remember there is more about caring for the poor and withholding judgement in the bible than homosexuality.
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty,
and remember his misery no more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb
in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9. Open thy mouth, judge righteously,
and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life. It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.” —Depression is not a synonym for being sad or having a bad day/bad week.
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