Clinical Depression /Yates ?
Q.Depression is a serious medical illness. In contrast to the normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, clinical depression is persistent and can interfere significantly with an individual's ability to function. Symptoms of depression include sad mood, loss of interest or pleasure in activities that were once enjoyed, change in appetite or weight, difficulty sleeping or oversleeping, physical slowing or agitation, energy loss, feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt, difficulty thinking or concentrating, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
A.The whole reason I brought up the melatonin business got lost in my convoluted sentences. That reason is to tell you that mainstream medicine is not the bulwark against all things "natural" that you seem to believe it is. Sara's neurologist was advising us to try it two years before the study in Boston, and *that* was several years ago, so there's been mainstream interest in melatonin for at least the past five or six years. I went to a psychiatrist who was a pharmacist first. His *main* job was at a residential treatment clinic for disturbed adolescents--again, this was maybe ten years ago--and he even then was using St. John's Wort with young people because, he said, so many of them were reluctant to take standard medical treatment for their depression, and SJW was a good gateway drug for them. Those who had mild depressions *sometimes* improved on SJW; those who were more seriously depressed *sometimes* felt a small improvement, and began to believe for the first time that medication of some sort might actually not be such a bad idea--it was the thin edge of the wedge of getting them to take more potent mood elevators. I assume you are under the influence of one of your herbal remedies. This passage does not say that dysthymia is a type of clinical depression. It's not. If this is the best you can do, you'd have been better off just dropping it. But I am enjoying these feeble attempts to justify the unjustifiable. Classified in the DSM, under "Mood Disorders," there are a number of 'disorders.' Within that classification are "Depressive Disorders," (also called "unipolar depression"). Within THAT classification are Major Depressive Disorder, (ta da) DYSTHYMIC DISORDER, and Depressive Disorders Not Otherwise Specified. The phase "clinical depression" is not a DSM category, but... obviously refers to depression that is significant enough to be "diagnosable." The above refers to the diagnoses available. Dysthymia is certainly a type of clinical depression. I've known some but only those with mild depression who have been using it for at least a year but then again I know plenty for whom it did zilch. I'm sure we all have horror stories about doctors--and I do too--but out of desperation perhaps I tried the alternative stuff and perhaps that's why I am such a fan. I was doing acupuncture when the medical profession still raised their eyebrows at the mention of it and I was using chiropractors when doctors blanched at the thought. Little by little we're accepting more and more methods that we didnt before but I think we have a long way to go. Of course my insurance company will pay and pay and pay for me to go to a medical doctor even though I get better relief from a chiropractor. Go figure. Barbara-still offering that Reiki session ( I wonder if Sara would respond to it but I wouldnt chance it, it sometimes energizes clients:)
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