@Background Pony #6EAC
I always thought 1 is America’s country code. :L

@DracoKX
do i need to add any numbers in the front?(like +86)

1-800-273-8255
 
Please call if you need help.

@Background Pony #1BBB  
All toasters toast PRRRRROMOTION!!! :D
 

@thps48  

@SocDev  
Unlikely to happen. He’s probably unsubscribed by now out of shame.

@SocDev  
Holy shit your avatar startled me
 

@Tetrominon
 
@a6p
 
No fighting, please.

@Tetrominon  
If I did that I’d be just like you~ ;)

Presumably, Depression will no longer exist in the DSM once Trump is president. XD

For some reason, I can’t help but think that the writing on his cutie mark is particularly good, given how he’d have to reach up from beneath it to write “No Hope”.

@Tetrominon
 
>Yet, I’ve almost done this exact same thing. I’ve drawn the sad pony avatar, and have engaged in self-deprecation and self-harm. That’s what gets to me: Why did I go immediately to the “rolls eyes ugh, this shit again” reaction, rather than the empathetic “you need help/support?”  
>Alternatively, I may just have this gut reaction because of online hugboxes and special snowflake tumblrinas obliterating mental health education with their incessant bullshit self-diagnoses and pop psychology.
 
It’s amazing what context you get when you read someone’s entire post instead of getting asspained right off the cuff.

@a6p  

 
Stop talking. Stop even trying to think. Just. Fucking. STOP.

@thps48  
Nobody was saying it was supposed to be pathetic.

@Background Pony #5524  
It’s not supposed to be a pathetic. It’s supposed to provoke empathy, not apathy. Unfortunately, I’ve seen two threads in which one or more users claim people with suicidal tendencies deserve to go to Hell. My response would be a sledgehammer to the knees of those tossers were it not a felony. :I

I CAAAAAN’T FEEEEEEL  
THE WAY I DID BEFORE  
DON’T TURN YOUR BACK ON ME  
I WON’T BE IGNOOOOORED

@a6p
 
self harm is not pathetic, it’s a way of coping, and comparing someones pain to another is irrelevant because how someone deals with pain/mental illness varies greatly, sorry ill be quiet now

Hmm. This picture gives me a lot to think about. I get a sort-of knee-jerk reaction and want to tell the pony (or more appropriately: the artist) to stop being so pathetic. I mean, body writing; how cliché. Get up, the ink will last longer than how shitty you feel right now. What do you even have to feel depressed about? There are a billion lives worse than yours.  
Yet, I’ve almost done this exact same thing. I’ve drawn the sad pony avatar, and have engaged in self-deprecation and self-harm. That’s what gets to me: Why did I go immediately to the “rolls eyes ugh, this shit again” reaction, rather than the empathetic “you need help/support?” I feel as if I should be above this, but I’m not. I don’t know, maybe I’m projecting myself onto this pony? Or perhaps depression is so difficult to seek support for because of people who don’t understand it, and because depressed people may be seen as pathetic even in the eyes of those most qualified to empathize with them.
 
Alternatively, I may just have this gut reaction because of online hugboxes and special snowflake tumblrinas obliterating mental health education with their incessant bullshit self-diagnoses and pop psychology.

@Background Pony #2E21  
You’re kind of a dick, man.