-What are your views on it?
-Do you agree with it?
-Do you believe medication helps?
-etc?
I ask because you see so many ads these days about depression meds, and it seems as if every other person is “depressed” these days…I am just wondering what you all think of it.
thanks 
Re: depression
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*Originally posted by 714: *
-What are your views on it?
-Do you agree with it?
-Do you believe medication helps?
-etc?
I ask because you see so many ads these days about depression meds, and it seems as if every other person is "depressed" these days...I am just wondering what you all think of it.
thanks :)
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yes, depression does exist!
it is something that resolves without medication but takes a long time.
medication CAN help, but only if it is used along with therapy.
the reasons for the depression need to be explored and then dealt with, otherwise, it returns a few months later!
-What are your views on it?
-Do you agree with it?
-Do you believe medication helps?
-etc?
so many questions about depression is depressing
hmm..well I think it's called clinical depression
it's hard to detect though..
The general belief is..when you are feeling "down" for more than a few weeks or you have difficulty functioning in daily life, you may be suffering from this common, yet serious medical illness. Every year more than 19 million americans from clinical depression, more than 80 percent of which can be treated successfully with medication, psychotherapy or a combination of both.At least that's what the doctors/companies and their studies claim.
But I think no one / no medicine can help you unless you help yourself..the will has to be there ... the hardest part is to acknowledge and accept the fact that one is clinically depressed...there seems to be a social stigma attached to it..:-/
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But I think no one / no medicine can help you unless you help yourself..the will has to be there
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So true.
I think the stigma suggests to ppl that they are weak, or lazy, or ungrateful for their lives in general. I thnk this why ppl try to ignore depression in themselves. In some ways, the friends I have here seem lost - like they do not worship regularly, the parents too busy to talk to them, they just feel isolated. I am not sure if medication can help those feelings if nothing else changes in their lives.
depression is when ur feeling down but genuinly cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel....whereas when one is feeling down they realise its temporary and eventually they will feel okay..just that it will take time....depression's got many forms...severe cases...and then minor cases
medicine can help but it has to be with therapy...
Yes, it has many forms. Some people go crazy without medication. Wether they are in therapy or not. It depends how serious it is.
Re: depression
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*Originally posted by 714: *
-What are your views on it?
-Do you agree with it?
-Do you believe medication helps?
-etc?
I ask because you see so many ads these days about depression meds, and it seems as if every other person is "depressed" these days...I am just wondering what you all think of it.
thanks :)
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-It sux and its hard to get out, especially when your down deep
- agree with it?? uhmmm dunno what to say to this
-yes, to some extent but not everybody gets helped with it :)
I think friends and family should be the ones who can/should help
Yepz was in one to :D for manny years, the usuall stuff, and even though I m out of it, it still comes back sometimes :)
what can I say except that one cannot describe what one feels.
just help others if they r down, if possible
Depression is a disease. When a person is feeling a loss of interest for two or more weeks, alongside some of biological symptoms like sleep disturbance, poor appetite, loss of concentration, tiredness, psychomotor retardation or merely agitation and loss of sex drive
and/or psychological symtoms e.g. a feeling of guilt, low self esteem, a sense of loss..... we diagnose him/her as depressed.
It can be classified as mild , moderate or major depression.
Sadly enough , the stigma is so huge against psychiatric illness... that the poor sufferers are left to deal with it .... because the general concept is that it is the patient's responsibility to deal with it.... WRONG.
There are loads of patients out there who are unable to cope and depressed without any obvious reason.
Sometimes doctors treat them with meds.... and if compliance is good, they do work in uplifting the mood over the course of atleast three weeks to as long as required.
But sometimes, therapy is required..... sometimes therapy alone is the treatment, yet it takes many sessions to get results.
and when all else fails ..... there is ECT... which really gives remarkably good results.... but it ain't the first line treatment.
i think its all in the head... "depressed" ppl just need to get out more and do something with their lives.
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i think its all in the head... "depressed" ppl just need to get out more and do something with their lives.
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yepz and if it was so easy, then y are there so manny peeple with what some of you call a 'disease' ??
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i think its all in the head... "depressed" ppl just need to get out more and do something with their lives.
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There are loads of physical causes of depression.... and if it isn't a part of another disease, it is itself caused by some chemicals increasing in the brain and some decreasing.
When people will start believing it ... then will they start grasping the importance of dealing it as a reall disease. It can be debilitating you know.
Plz dont talk about depression, :( :( offcourse it exist... thats a bad thing :(