I hear you, I’ve been in deep bouts of depression since my early teens.

In my case, I started to consistently feel better when I became a part of a community that was doing something. Organising, taking some form of action, and connecting with people who had shared goals and who’ve been through similar struggles as myself.

Over the years I’ve worked on my depression by myself a lot, engaging in hobbies, working out, etc. but the improvements were always temporary. It wasn’t until I started fighting for something with others that I stopped sliding down into the abyss, even through bad days.

It’s just my experience, I hope you can make it out as well.

It is so difficult for people to grasp just how deeply entrenched carnism is as an ideology, to the point that “orphan crushing machine” stories such as this are seen as somehow positive by most.

To clarify, I am not referring to the OP or comments on this post, rather the reception of these types of stories in general, whereas in the case of humans it’s very easy to spot the contradictions.

I can only read this in Yugopnik’s voice.