Check on your "strong friends." Check on your friends that "are always smiling." Check on your "funny friends." Check on your friends that "have it all." Depression can make someone great at masking what is inside. This holiday season JUST BE KIND. You dk what folks be battling. 🥺🫶🏾❤️‍🩹 - ThreadSky

bigempress41.bsky.social • 135 days ago

Check on your
"strong friends."
Check on your friends that "are always smiling."
Check on your
"funny friends."
Check on your friends that "have it all."
Depression can make someone great at masking what is inside. This holiday season JUST BE KIND. You dk what folks be battling. 🥺🫶🏾❤️‍🩹

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troykarnes.bsky.social•134 days ago

Yep! So important.

noahfleetwood.bsky.social•134 days ago

Sad but true

susancoffin.bsky.social•135 days ago

Absolutely.

careernetnation.bsky.social•135 days ago

An important message.

purplevh80.bsky.social•133 days ago

Makes me think of Anthony Bourdain. His death was such a shock to me. He lived the life (as portrayed on TV) that I have always wanted. Traveling across the world, meeting new people, learning about different cultures, and eating rich food. Who wouldn't want to make money doing this? Yet suicide

reidycreek.bsky.social•134 days ago

#KindnessIsAlwaysTheRightThingToDo

yep-she-said-that.bsky.social•134 days ago

Yep.

jewels17.bsky.social•135 days ago

So very true. I masked for years and appeared to be the strong one. Until one day I stopped the charade and went to therapy. It was the strongest and bravest thing that I've ever done!

peas.bsky.social•132 days ago

🥺🥺🥺

tysm for the heartfelt reminders.

checking on yinz, too! 💙❤️

chicagojcb.bsky.social•134 days ago

And check on your friends you don't hear from. They might need you but don't want to ask.

lemzoe.bsky.social•134 days ago

Humor and jokes can be a trauma response. Your funniest friends need a hug. ❤️

garlicsteak.bsky.social•134 days ago

So true. Being that rock for others really takes its toll.

And people who are always selfless are typically like that because they don't value themselves.

cerebralelixir16.bsky.social•135 days ago

Great message (external and internal)

newmekboy.bsky.social•135 days ago

This🙄

dgen31.bsky.social•134 days ago

Great reminder. Everyone everywhere is going through something.

earthdweller65.bsky.social•134 days ago

Thank you for this. I hope you are well. 💙 🫶 💙

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

Yes ma’am. To God be the glory🙌🏾

vampireghuleh.bsky.social•134 days ago

So important!! 🥺💖

ayunabean.bsky.social•135 days ago

Very true. I remember the shock on my friends faces when I casually mentioned I used to actually be suicidal. I hid it deep. I smiled alot. Not because it was a lie, but because my friends at the time made it easy to be happy around them.

bigempress41.bsky.social•135 days ago

I’m so happy for your growth…the deepest prayers & support on your journey mamaz💕🙏🏾🥺

ayunabean.bsky.social•135 days ago

Thank you! I'm actually doing great now. I am in the best headspace I've ever been in. Haven't had a suicidal thought in 4 years and am working through my depression and trauma in healthy ways. It can and does get better. 💙

bigempress41.bsky.social•135 days ago

Sending love & digital hugs🫂💕❤️‍🩹

stewie33.bsky.social•134 days ago

As the saying goes: NOBODY fakes Depression. They fake being well.

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

Hello!!! 🗣️🥺

mickdundee59.bsky.social•134 days ago

Some of us fight our inner demons in private not because of stigma but sometimes it’s just hard to show your true self.Emotions are hard for some of us.This is why I love Bluesky so much.My anonymity.

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

💛💛💛

vicsmix.bsky.social•134 days ago

Good advice! Depression is a wily beast.

xandoid.bsky.social•135 days ago

Great advice

willownbirch.bsky.social•134 days ago

So true try to teach this to the young people in our family be grateful, kind to others we have no idea the baggage they carry.

tiawolf424.bsky.social•135 days ago

Guy recently told me I seemed too giddy while talking about my past stuff and tried to say I was schizophrenic.

People often laugh at painful memories! So definitely check in.

bigempress41.bsky.social•135 days ago

Thankful for you. Keep being the best & decent human being possible 🫶🏾

geekyoldman.bsky.social•135 days ago

voluntold.bsky.social•134 days ago

This x 1000 😔

kobikatri.bsky.social•134 days ago

That would be me... everyone is going through so much and, all things considered, things going well for me. So I don't like to tell people or even hint that I am not okay. They have enough drama without adding mine. But it's really hard being strong all the time.

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

Agreed. But you still need a healthy outlet🙏🏾

kobikatri.bsky.social•134 days ago

You are right. Tough words to hear and even tougher to accept, but you are right.

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

The hard part is actually getting started…But you got this. You just speaking out, look at you👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

kobikatri.bsky.social•117 days ago

2025 is a grand year to focus on mental health. Glad I got a head start!!

bigempress41.bsky.social•117 days ago

🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

felinemom.bsky.social•134 days ago

I spent my life trying to hide it

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

I’m sorry but here…YOU ARE SEEN…HEARD & SUPPORTED. It’s a safe space in here🫶🏾 Blessings to you.

felinemom.bsky.social•134 days ago

Discovering that

rockaby.bsky.social•114 days ago

https://youtu.be/gFyeFSPQa4A?si=raQq6xSTFbDA__Qs

golfsobad.bsky.social•60 days ago

I had to follow you for this post.

spiralweaver.bsky.social•134 days ago

Yes. Yes. Yes! 😁💕🌷

forhumilitiessake3.bsky.social•134 days ago

Such a powerful yet tragically truthful message. As someone who’s lost loved ones to suicide, I can confirm absolutely everything you said 🥹💙👏

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

I’m sorry for your losses💔🙏🏾

forhumilitiessake3.bsky.social•134 days ago

Thank you 🙏 By having starting the conversation, you’re making a positive impact by creating awareness and effecting change. Big kudos to you 👏💙

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

Appreciate that. Just doing the Lords work🙏🏾

judy3t.bsky.social•134 days ago

Tolerate that your friends are still your friends even if they don't think like you, act like you, and agree with you 100%. If people could stop forcing me to change in order to be their friends, my depression would INSTANTLY lighten.

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

If you can’t change people…CHANGE PEOPLE😮‍💨💯🤝🏾

adhdbrain.bsky.social•134 days ago

I needed to read that.

bigempress41.bsky.social•134 days ago

So happy it reached you💕

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