Interesting article. Anyone who thinks depression can be useful is someone who has absolutely NO CLUE what real deperession is. Getting down or blue once in a while is NOT depression. Those down or blue periods may offer a bit of insight to someone to seek help, but as a person who suffered acute, chronic depression since childhood.....I can assure you that "talk therapy" was the last thing on my mind. People who suffer from chronic depression are not in a talking mood because they really don't even realize most of the time that they are depressed. At least I didn't. I was quite functional....though I only did what I had to do and never let anyone close to me to see how "dark" I really was. I also had no idea I WAS depressed until the middle of my 45th year of life, when I just shut down totally and felt it was time for me to check out of this "hotel" called life. It was that "incident" (as my son calls it) when I was diagnosed with depression that I'd apparently had since birth just about (based on information from my family to the doctors). I was fortunate in that I found a great doctor who taught me that I was the one with the power to choose how I felt. I was with him and on Prozac for just under 2 years and have managed to control my life since then on my own. I now recognize when I'm slipping and grab hold of myself to avoid that dark well. I'm also aware that should I not be able to avoid it, or choose not to, that there is help available to me and I would utilize it, because I never want to go to the place I was in my 45th year of life again.
The commercials for these new anti-depressents crack me up....when they don't have me wanting to kick the TV that is. I don't know about anyone else, but what they describe just strikes me as down periods, and we all have those for whatever reason. And don't even get me started on the "possible side effects" (depression and suicidal thoughts being 2 of them no less). :-)
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Interesting article. Anyone who thinks depression can be useful is someone who has absolutely NO CLUE what real deperession is. Getting down or blue once in a while is NOT depression. Those down or blue periods may offer a bit of insight to someone to seek help, but as a person who suffered acute, chronic depression since childhood.....I can assure you that "talk therapy" was the last thing on my mind. People who suffer from chronic depression are not in a talking mood because they really don't even realize most of the time that they are depressed. At least I didn't. I was quite functional....though I only did what I had to do and never let anyone close to me to see how "dark" I really was. I also had no idea I WAS depressed until the middle of my 45th year of life, when I just shut down totally and felt it was time for me to check out of this "hotel" called life. It was that "incident" (as my son calls it) when I was diagnosed with depression that I'd apparently had since birth just about (based on information from my family to the doctors). I was fortunate in that I found a great doctor who taught me that I was the one with the power to choose how I felt. I was with him and on Prozac for just under 2 years and have managed to control my life since then on my own. I now recognize when I'm slipping and grab hold of myself to avoid that dark well. I'm also aware that should I not be able to avoid it, or choose not to, that there is help available to me and I would utilize it, because I never want to go to the place I was in my 45th year of life again.
The commercials for these new anti-depressents crack me up....when they don't have me wanting to kick the TV that is. I don't know about anyone else, but what they describe just strikes me as down periods, and we all have those for whatever reason. And don't even get me started on the "possible side effects" (depression and suicidal thoughts being 2 of them no less). :-)
June 15, 2011 - 2:44pmThis Comment
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