Who Is Really Depressed? - Comments

'What has happened to the days when no one cared what you where wearing, or how you looked? Why do we now care what someone is wearing?'

It never existed. People always have cared. Now, I think it's a lot more harsh. I don't give a damn what people label me as, so I dress as I want, dye my hair as I want, go into the stores I want, wear the cloths I want, whatever.

I think [b]Bardot.[/b] said it all.
No offense.
But I really thought this would be about depression and raise awareness. I was annoyed.

I walk into Hot Topic wearing Aeropostale all the time. I love both stores for different reasons. And judging somebody on their actions is no wrong because they control what they do. Of course you shouldn't judge somebody on their appearances though.
As I say "Everybody judges. There are just those who live by it and go on with their lives and those who choose to ignore it and get to know the person."

"What has happened to the days when no one cared what you where wearing, or how you looked? Why do we now care what someone is wearing?"

^What 'days' are you talking about? People have always been judged others on what they wear and what they look like - labeling and stereotyping and judging isn't new.

And you go on about how people shouldn't label or judge others, but yet you label yourself, and others ('preps'). Isn't that a little weird?

Dude, humans have [i]always[/i] judged others by what they do, where they shop, what they wear-- it's nothing new, and definitely not new on Mibba.

Very well written article!

I don't see how shopping at Hollister makes you "preppy" or Hot Topic makes you "emo/goth," it's just clothes and people don't seem to notice that.

I'm sick of this stuff. We get it, society is judgmental. Teenagers are mean. Parents are ignorant. Thanks a whole bunch Captain Obvious.

This is a very well written article, and I think it voices what many people have been trying to say for a very long time.

I completely agree. I walked inside Hot Topic and my cousin dragged me out asking me what the hell was i doing? And at my school a girl who i've never met walked up to me andasked "do you cut yourself?" just because i was wearing black and had a scar on my arm that came frommy dog. really some people need to lay off the labels.

A lot of people are saying there's no point in labels. They're stupid. Blah, blah, blah. Well, there's really no point in discussing them either, because it wont change anything.

Once upon a time, no really cared about what you looked like, it really was about personality, but money status is what's always been around. Now, between teenagers, it's about their label; if someone labels you, prove them wrong. < -- Prove that you're your own person, do what you want and be happy with it. Aslong as somebodies happy, what somebody else say's shouldn't matter.
Who care's if you're weird? Who care's if you have a different style of hair? Everybody is unique, people need to understand this.

Hmm.

I really did put my hopes up here.

But you totally skirted the whole psycholohical/medical side of depression.

And that it's not only little teenagers that are depressed. A very big amount of generations are.

Sorry, but you didn't really research what depression was or it's symptoms or anything besides looking at rather sad labels.

What has happened to the days when no one cared what you where wearing, or how you looked? Why do we now care what someone is wearing?

^ Did those days ever exist?

great point.
i don't get it how we're all labeled.
wether your black, white, or purple we're all still people.
wether you have no friends or not its ok.

I fully, absolutely concur! I'm apparently "Emo" because I listen to the likes of Bring Me The Horizon and Hawthorne Heights, wear make up to make me look pale/dead and wear a skull sweatband on my left wrist. And my hair is black. But i'm not deppressed. Yes, I cut, but because I need adrenaline to live; its my drug. But thats the only reason why. I'm quite a happy 15yo!

Honestly and entruely the only way to let the issue of labels become less of an issue is to not judge people yourself and to not let those who judge you get to you because if someones going to judge you on your looks and then decide right away if they like you or not just from that then you probably don't want them as a friend.

Good article . . .

things like this(labels, etc) make me miss kindergarten. and even THEN not everyone liked each other -___-

I think since civilization first began we've been judging eachother. Its not just people pointing at eachother saying "prep" or "emo" is goes way beyond that. I don't know why everyone seems to think the world is out to get them. You're judged by everything no matter who you are. Religion/Class/Grades ... Since when did it become only about whether your emo or not? 'Cause that's all I hear about lately; emos getting picked on.

I don't know. Maybe what I said is just an exaggeration, but at the moment that's how it seems.

Meh.
It's just the way people are today: ignorant.

I have a friend who burned her wrist making tea. Everyone accused her of cutting. But I knew for a fact... even the school nurses confirmed that it was a burn and not a cut. Still she had an 'emo' hair cut, (she was Asian) so she just HAD to have cut heself. *rolls eyes*

Idiots.