Depression? Stop being so silly!

[TheEclipse]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...y-illness.html

Apparently depression is just a trendy illness.
This sort of article is both dangerous and ignorant.

Just because you're young doesn't mean it's not real. And just because you're not in poverty doesn't mean you can't be depressed. Happiness is not based on how much money you have. And just if it's temporary, you're not suicidal, or you don't need medication doesn't mean you don't need help.

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[TheEclipse]

No one here suffers from depression or knows anyone who does, or has an opinion?

[matt$]

No, i dont know anyone who suffers with depression, even poor people can have fun so they can **** with there so called 'depression'

[myke]

I've learnt about depression in Psychology, it exists but it's only in extreme cases that it deserves to be called depression whereas people like to use it as a call for sympathy, e.g. someone breaks up with their bf/gf - facebook: 'IM SO DEPRESSED ' depression is a long term 'illness'

[Jordy]

I definitely believe it exists, I have an older friend who has attempted to commit suicide three times and has worked his way up the counselling hierarchy he's having so much trouble (The worse you are, the more you're referred upwards). It's quite sad really to hear about and very confusing to say the least, he isn't even sure what he wants from life and what upsets him. I think the word depression is thrown around a bit much and perhaps anti-depressants are dished out a bit easily and people become too dependant.

[TheEclipse]

No, depression is NOT a long term illness necessarily. You can be genuinely depressed and need help, for only a few months. It's not necessarily a permanent illness.

Around here anti depressants are not handed out lightly. But do you know why they do? It's so those people can feel a sense of normalcy. It doesn't make them 'happy'. It allows them to be in a normal spectrum of happy/sad, rather than depths of despair, unable to get out of bed, kind of thing.

I have depression.


It is not curable by a fun night out.

[myke]

No, depression is NOT a long term illness necessarily. You can be genuinely depressed and need help, for only a few months. It's not necessarily a permanent illness.

Around here anti depressants are not handed out lightly. But do you know why they do? It's so those people can feel a sense of normalcy. It doesn't make them 'happy'. It allows them to be in a normal spectrum of happy/sad, rather than depths of despair, unable to get out of bed, kind of thing.

I have depression.


It is not curable by a fun night out.

ok your signature contradicts your post.

a few months is long term... a week isn't.

[FlyingJesus]

So basically you saw an article that makes light of depression and got angry because you like your little depression badge? You clearly didn't even read it correctly, because it doesn't say that you have to be impoverished to be depressed - quite the opposite, it says that most people diagnosed with depression are middle class. It doesn't say that the money causes it either, so that point you brought up is also pointless. In fact, the only problem this article raises is that it seems to confuse the medical term of depression with a simple depressive mood with everyday causes, and refuses to accept that different people react differently to certain situations.

I personally fit the bill for the symptoms of depression, and hell maybe I am depressed but I don't need a doctor to tell me that my lifestyle's not in order, I can work that out for myself. I also don't feel the need to get defensive over it - what I do get somewhat riled up about is when people suffer from psychological disorders and put on their superiority hat. It is, in effect, the same as people who call themselves depressed for the label, and this mentality is likely the cause of this surge of "fashionable depression". You know why it happens? The middle classes have nothing to do and not enough to complain about, so we invent reasons to get down about ourselves in order to feel something, and then we realise that it's true. The working class have their own problems and I can't honestly say I'm that close with the royals so I don't know what goes on in the minds of the upper class, but that is why middle class depression is such a big issue - which was in fact the point of the article, not that the condition doesn't exist.

[Caution]

Pathetic. Janet Street Porter has obviously had no major problems in her life and can make that assumption.

[GommeInc]

Interesting... It varies from person to person. I can't think what the word is, but where you have a solid mentality I've had depression, but not clinical or medically examined depression - sometimes it's just a waste of time getting it examined. It's only over small things that it becomes "trendy" depression, where you get depressed but don't actually know why, or where you do not have a good enough reason to be depressed. Losing money is a good example - obviously not enough where you become poor, but money lost in the short-term. Alot of people get depressed over money issues where they've lot alot of money, but can easily live a decent life by cutting down temporarily.