First off, I'd like to apologize if I came off sounding harsh. This is a subject that hits really close to home for me, and it really upsets me to see people misunderstanding the issue. Seeing people saying that depression is just something that you can "get over" kinda sets me off.
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Originally Posted by Jenny Harper
Actually, Coda, depression can be triggered by bad events as well as being part of a biological reaction.
I think I have an idea what Clinical depression is. Watching my mother horf down pills like they were trail mix so she could die, because she had a shit family. So DO NOT come prancing in here to tell me what depression is or isn't.
You've changed my view of you Coda. Cheers.
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It's all about proportional magnitude. My point is that even a person without clinical depression can get depressed by something bad happening. The difference is that someone with the specific medical condition called "depression" will experience these symptoms out of proportion to the cause, and sometimes without a specific cause. If you have a sucky life and things REALLY ARE horrible, you can have many of the symptoms of clinical depression without having a biological problem, but counseling and positive thinking actually
will address these symptoms. For someone with clinical depression -- which is a specific set of disorders -- counseling and positive thinking are, at best, treatment of symptoms.
I'm not going to put myself in a position to judge whether your mother had clinical depression or not. I'm not a doctor. I don't practice medicine. She might have had it, she might not have, and I'm not going to make that call. People with healthy neurotransmitter balances can still have problems. And awkwardly enough, people with healthy neurotransmitter balances will still see effects from antidepressant medications.
My entire point here is that clinical depression affects its sufferers in such a way that even if you took away everything bad in that person's life, if everything were happy, if nothing ever went wrong, the sufferer would still have depression and would still sometimes cry for no reason and would still have sleeping problems and muscle pain and the other physical side effects associated with the disorder.
So please, don't interpret me as saying that people don't get depressed. I'm only saying that there are people for whom non-medical techniques alone CANNOT help and it is HIGHLY offensive to suggest to such a person that they can just get over it.