UCLABelle
Ideal_Rock
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Date: 2/12/2007 3:02:12 PM
Author:UCLABelle
Sometimes there are days when even the worlds most beautiful diamond can''t make you happy...I was wondering if any of you suffer from mild, moderate, or severe depression?
I suffer from it, and it is something I don''t tell many people, but was wondering how many out there suffer too?
Date: 2/13/2007 11:44:49 AM
Author: hilbake
Does anyone here know how to tell if you''re really depressed or if you''re just down?
When is it time to actually go and see a doctor for it?
Date: 2/14/2007 5:32:18 PM
Author: Allisonfaye
Also, I have to respectfully disagree with those who say that positive thoughts will lift you out of it. Frankly, that sounds like something Tom Cruise would say. And I think it is attitudes like that that make people feel bad about seeking medical attention for depression.
Date: 2/14/2007 7:16:57 PM
Author: providence
if you learn to be positive you won''t be depressed.
It is wrong to overplay the idea that you are sick.
(RX) are not a necessary evil, but just one other thing that people do to prop themselves up without addressing the real issue.
I can''t say it any more eloquently than that.Date: 2/15/2007 11:34:46 AM
Author: littlelysser
Providence -
It is people like you that make things very difficult for people that struggle with mental health issues. People with mental illness often suffer from a chemical imbalance. For you to even intimate that a person struggling with mental illness should think themselves happy is simply disgusting. Members of my family have struggled with mental illness for years. My sister suffered from Severe Clinical Depression which lead to a psychotic break. She believed my parents were aliens. And her doctor was the devil. Medication was the only thing that brought her back from the brink. Perhaps she could have just thought herself happy. Or perhaps she should have just thought about why she believed my parents were aliens. I''m sure she could have just thought herself though it. Perhaps she should have dealth with her mental illness without pills to ''prop her up.''
You CLEARLY do not understand depression and mental illness. It isn''t like my sister woke up one day and was a tad depressed and she could have just played with a kitten or thought about happy things. Mental illness is a real illness. Perhaps if I can liken it as to someone suffering from a chronic disease - like diabetes. Perhaps you would advocate that they and judge them for being unable to wish the insulin to perform properly.
You liked all the colors of your EX-girlfriend''s personality? PLEASE! Could you be more selfish? Did you ever think about how it felt for her to be what you dubbed ''very emotional.'' What you see and what she feels are very different. Perhaps you''d feel a bit differently about seeing ''all the colors of your personality'' if those ''colors'' changed your view of reality and made you want to die.
Your uneducated and closed minded ''perspective'' iis why people are ashamed of mental illness.
I''m disgusted.