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ADHD vs DEPRESSION: which is more stigmatized?

Obviously, you shouldn't be embarrassed by your struggles (e...
peach locale
  07/18/25
depression is because you make everyone feel it too, so if y...
lime vivacious quadroon sanctuary
  07/18/25
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peach locale
  07/19/25
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peach locale
  07/18/25
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peach locale
  07/18/25
Are we talking Van Gogh cut your ear off depression, or proc...
exhilarant tattoo area
  07/18/25
moderate depression--not suicidal
peach locale
  07/18/25
ADHD isn't real. Everyone finds it difficult to sit still a...
ocher immigrant hall
  07/18/25
Gen X and older stigmatize it. late Millennials and younger ...
pea-brained comical step-uncle's house electric furnace
  07/18/25
Gen x are all on antidepressants and stimulants now
peach locale
  07/18/25
adhd by a million times, nobody gives a fuck but with depres...
floppy home
  07/18/25
I feel like depression is more relatable.
peach locale
  07/18/25
no, people think it is just being sad and they expereince th...
floppy home
  07/18/25
fair. What mental illnesses do you have, if I can ask.
peach locale
  07/18/25
depression, started when I was 12 and I haven't woken up not...
floppy home
  07/18/25
just work on your golf game. it will help.
Carmine bull headed milk orchestra pit
  07/18/25
sorry to hear. Have you found any long-term relief in medic...
peach locale
  07/18/25
no, the meds are borderline useless, they numb you up a bit ...
floppy home
  07/18/25
Did you try wellbutrin, which is supposed to work via a diff...
peach locale
  07/18/25
at this point we have decades of evidence that they are not ...
floppy home
  07/18/25
are you talking about the Kirsch studies?
peach locale
  07/18/25
nothing that specific no
floppy home
  07/18/25
look him up on youtube his ideas are interesting edit: ...
peach locale
  07/18/25
You just seem like a gigantic faggot tbh, have you considere...
Henna Glittery Indian Lodge Filthpig
  07/19/25
"adhd" just means you're an underachiever and your...
Carmine bull headed milk orchestra pit
  07/18/25
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peach locale
  07/19/25
Outside of work ADHD is mostly neutral and can make you more...
Canary territorial crackhouse
  07/19/25
Is forgetting to text back people adhd or depression? (assum...
peach locale
  07/19/25
Forgetting is ADHD. Thinking of texting them and the getting...
.....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;
  07/22/25
I feel like it is super rare for someone to come out at work...
chest-beating geriatric trailer park
  07/19/25
coming out at work as depressed tp
peach locale
  07/19/25
Coming out randomly is one thing, but being blatantly obviou...
.....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;
  07/22/25
both fake
Submissive cerise mediation
  07/19/25
neither carry stigma;they are both 173 in their own way and ...
cruel-hearted library
  07/19/25
I don't think ADHD is stigmatized very much. Maybe it should...
Candy Ride
  07/22/25
If an adult complains about having ADHD, he sounds like an i...
mountain cat
  07/22/25
Still don't even know what the fuck ADHD is
Ass Sunstein
  07/22/25
It's whatever you want. It means you both can't focus and fo...
;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.
  07/22/25


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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:34 PM
Author: peach locale

Obviously, you shouldn't be embarrassed by your struggles (everyone has some issue), but hypo: everyone in society knows you struggle with ADHD, or everyone knows you struggle with depression. Which is worse?

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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:59 PM
Author: lime vivacious quadroon sanctuary

depression is because you make everyone feel it too, so if you know whats good for you you hide it chemically or thru willpower

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Date: July 19th, 2025 3:10 PM
Author: peach locale



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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: peach locale



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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: peach locale



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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:02 PM
Author: exhilarant tattoo area

Are we talking Van Gogh cut your ear off depression, or processsed foods and streaming content depression?

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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:18 PM
Author: peach locale

moderate depression--not suicidal

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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: ocher immigrant hall

ADHD isn't real. Everyone finds it difficult to sit still and do boring things.

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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:21 PM
Author: pea-brained comical step-uncle's house electric furnace

Gen X and older stigmatize it. late Millennials and younger are the most mentally ill and therefore most understanding.

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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:16 PM
Author: peach locale

Gen x are all on antidepressants and stimulants now

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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: floppy home

adhd by a million times, nobody gives a fuck but with depression everybody feels the need to make one small effort to show compassion but then immeidately just wants you to knock it out because it affects them

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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:39 PM
Author: peach locale

I feel like depression is more relatable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49112787)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:17 PM
Author: floppy home

no, people think it is just being sad and they expereince that but then wake up not sad, they falsely believe they can relate and don't understand why you won't just stop

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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: peach locale

fair. What mental illnesses do you have, if I can ask.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49112931)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:53 PM
Author: floppy home

depression, started when I was 12 and I haven't woken up not thinking about killing myself since, I am growing tired of it

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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:57 PM
Author: Carmine bull headed milk orchestra pit

just work on your golf game. it will help.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49112967)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:59 PM
Author: peach locale

sorry to hear. Have you found any long-term relief in medications?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49112972)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 7:39 PM
Author: floppy home

no, the meds are borderline useless, they numb you up a bit but that's it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49113072)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 7:43 PM
Author: peach locale

Did you try wellbutrin, which is supposed to work via a different mechanism? Though come to think of it, I don't know anyone who has actually improved on wellbutrin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49113090)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: floppy home

at this point we have decades of evidence that they are not effective, for an acute bout of sadness where you come off of them they might not be poison exactly but to just take forever they absolutely are

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Date: July 18th, 2025 8:09 PM
Author: peach locale

are you talking about the Kirsch studies?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49113137)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 8:11 PM
Author: floppy home

nothing that specific no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49113145)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 8:16 PM
Author: peach locale

look him up on youtube his ideas are interesting

edit: also, is there any hope for depressed people if antidepressants don't work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49113156)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 3:37 PM
Author: Henna Glittery Indian Lodge Filthpig

You just seem like a gigantic faggot tbh, have you considered that may be the cause of your issues?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49114623)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:55 PM
Author: Carmine bull headed milk orchestra pit

"adhd" just means you're an underachiever and your parents are getting milked by jewish pharma rackets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49112959)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:31 AM
Author: peach locale



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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:09 AM
Author: Canary territorial crackhouse

Outside of work ADHD is mostly neutral and can make you more interesting in certain contexts, unless you’re also one of those autistic spazzes that can’t have a normal conversation, interrupts people constantly and has no internal monologue, so you spew your random mental illness tangents at people constantly. But by the time they’re in high school many/most ADHD learn to zone out while you talk and then change the subject to something they find interesting. Depressed people who can’t mask are awful to be around, and for most of my life society has maintained a steady trend of making more and more excuses for these self-obsessed Debbie Downers when they suck the life out of every room they’re in. But at work if you say you’re depressed you can get paid leave and shit, but if you say you have ADHD they tell you to get some adderall and stop being a faggot and then they look for excuses to fire you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49113742)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: peach locale

Is forgetting to text back people adhd or depression? (assuming you like them)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49114315)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 7:14 PM
Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;


Forgetting is ADHD. Thinking of texting them and the getting overwhelmed and then blowing it off is depression. Co-morbidity of both is super common, eg remembering you forgot to text someone, think of texting them but get super overwhelmed by them being mad you forgot and what they might reply, shame spiraling, getting distracted by an avoidant behavior enabler, say for instance a very simplistic Web 1.0 message bort popularity with racist gay lawyers, and then you go do that to distract yourself from your brain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49123166)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 3:35 PM
Author: chest-beating geriatric trailer park

I feel like it is super rare for someone to come out at work as having either depression of ADHD but either way with depression, colleague work folks seize up because they afraid said worker might kill self which will be bad PR. Like that Sidley lawyer who blew his head off in the parking lot of the LA office.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49114616)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 5:02 PM
Author: peach locale

coming out at work as depressed tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49114826)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;


Coming out randomly is one thing, but being blatantly obvious about it for a while, and then raising it as a defense when they start the process of documenting your shitty performance and setting up their PIP & RIF is much more common.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49123171)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 3:37 PM
Author: Submissive cerise mediation

both fake

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Date: July 19th, 2025 3:39 PM
Author: cruel-hearted library

neither carry stigma;they are both 173 in their own way and are not prole but if this is about coming out at work, then do not say depression, some reasons were provided above

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49114631)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Candy Ride

I don't think ADHD is stigmatized very much. Maybe it should be, but I don't think anyone cares.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49123169)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 7:20 PM
Author: mountain cat

If an adult complains about having ADHD, he sounds like an immature baby. If he says he's depressed, people empathize and will encourage him to seek help.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49123178)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 7:20 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein

Still don't even know what the fuck ADHD is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49123180)



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Date: July 22nd, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.


It's whatever you want. It means you both can't focus and focus too much. It means you have too much energy and have no energy. It means you have too many interests to pick one but also "deep dive" into particular ones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751925&forum_id=2Reputation#49123197)