Clinical Depression America. Depression Drugs ?
Q.I believe in the "Arbeit macht frei" concept. Not in the vicious sense which inspired the slogan initially, but in the sense that I feel happy when I'm working hard, even if at the end of that my ankle packs it in. Unfortunately sometimes even that is not enough to stop my depression.
A.when a person is depressed, either situational or clinical, they just dont get over it. For those people who suffere depression, they need something to stabilize them If you dont want to take medication and you handle your life, that is your perrogrative, but for those that need them, they should use them. I also believe that a person who is depressed see a psychiatrist as opposed to a therapist who has no knowledge of psychotropic medications and reads a book on what to have prescribed by a regular doctor. You have informed me before real depression. I listened. What I am seeing is the overuse of these drugs in peopole that are not depresaed but are just stressed. The GP seem to be too quick to use them. A referral to the proper doctor is the right thing to do. I see the word depression beng used too casually. Unfortunately Guy's attitude to things like depression, anxiety and panic attacks is similar to that of a large part of community. It is common for a sufferer to hear comments such as "there's nothing wrong with you - snap out of it" or "think happy thoughts" or "so-and-so is worse off than you are, and she is not depressed". Such comments can even come from the medical profession and some supportive people who should know better. In my case, I admit that my level of depression etc., and my reasons for being so, are nowhere as serious as those of other posters here. Regardless, I feel I've received little understanding, even from my closest family. Yesterday afternoon some situations at work got to me. There was no big deal - they shouldn't have hassled me, yet they did. It's now just after 3am in Melbourne, and I've accepted that I have yet another night of insomnia. Thought I might as well make the most of it, so I got up and posted this...... Parhaps I'll get some small degree of sleep when I get back to bed in the next hour.
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