Reality is the best anti-depressant, but it still sucks

I’ll try to make this as concise as possible, but the bottom line is pretty much in the title. Reality is the best anti-depressant, but it still sucks. The best thing you can do is accept it as such, and move on from there. <br><br>I’m not sure how many here have experienced crippling depression at some point in their lives. I have. I’ve been clinically depressed pretty much my whole life, and the best way I found to combat it was to accept reality as it is. <br><br>It’s really hard, and I think most people rather burry their heads in the sand than accept it. I’m not really sure why that is. I think they would rather believe they still have some semblance of control in their lives. If reality is the truth, then they have no control, and that’s the hardest pill to swallow. <br><br>I tried for a pretty long time to convince myself that the truth wasn’t the truth. I tried to convince myself that people are basically good, and that the world isn’t a mess of filth, scum, and evil. But the more I saw, the more I realized that’s not the case. <br><br>So I pretty much accepted that the world is a shit show, with a bunch of assholes and stupid people. I accept it because I know I have no control over it. I also accept that people in general don’t want to hear the truth. <br><br>I’ve also found that people who want to hear the truth are the ones who already realize it. It’s pretty much pointless to try and convince anyone of anything if they don’t want to be convinced. <br><br>I know that most people here are aware of this, but just wanted to share my thoughts on the matter. If I think about it too much, I still get pretty bummed out that most people won’t accept reality. There’s still a small part of me that wants to try and get others to see things as they really are. <br><br>But it’s pointless. I’m wasting my time trying to get people who don’t want the truth to convince them of the truth. <br><br>So I guess I just needed to type this out.