Biggest BS "Disease"

[orange]

A 'Good Band'

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Do any of you actually know what clinical depression does?

Have any of you lived with someone suffering from it?

Ignorant ****ers.

[Pythagoras]

Originally posted by orange


Agreed. However, less than a century ago and before, all of these things existed yet went untreated, and for the most part people made due. We're becoming dependent on medicine for everything...

I think we're just replacing religion with psychology a bit. I trust the psychologists to not proselytize.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Ron Jeremy
Do any of you actually know what clinical depression does?

Have any of you lived with someone suffering from it?

Ignorant ****ers.

I've been diagnosed with depression before, and I think it's crap.

Maybe there are more severe cases, and maybe some doctors just like to prescribe drugs, but if I am what is considered to be clinically depressed, it's garbage.

[Pythagoras]

Originally posted by Osweld



I've been diagnosed with depression before, and I think it's crap.

Maybe there are more severe cases, and maybe some doctors just like to prescribe drugs, but if I am what is considered to be clinically depressed, it's garbage.

Are you constantly unhappy for no apparent reason for a period of greater than two weeks? Is life a drag? Have you lost interest in things that were once fun? If not you were probably misdiagnosed.

When I see the above things happening over and over I consider it an honest and deadly disease.

You know what the problem with depression is, so many people in our country blame themselves for it. They think that there's something 'wrong' with them, when they are really just having a psychological "broken leg." Its NOT their fault that they have had to deal with such pain in their lives, and they need to learn to stop victimizing themselves over and over for being depressed and move one. That is what therapy is about, 1) Understanding that depression is not the person's fault 2) Enabling the person to realize why he/she feels so bad and 3) Empowering the person to move on.

Have you ever really thought about the complexities of your psyche? Do you not think that its possible for some people to get utterly befuddled with themselves to the point of hopelessness?

Its definetly not a little girls fault who gets exploited by sexual predators, but often that little girl will grow up into someone that is self victimizing and feels worthless. How dare you tell her that there is no such thing as depression and to just move on? Would you actually think for a second that everything she has gone through is simple, here's a magic wand, cure. And Ill add prescribing her a 'pill' and letting her subsist off of that would NOT be such a cure.

[Dr Strangelove]

Nexium is a "proton pump inhibitor". It inhibits the function of molecules in the membranes of the cells which line the stomach. Pumping protons across the membranes of these cells is the crucial step in generating hydrochloric acid, hence inhibiting this pump reduces acid production. If you don't make acid, then you can't have acid refluxing into the esophagus, the tube that brings chewed food from ther mouth to the stomach. "Acid reflux" occurs when the sphincter (love that word) that closes off the stomach weakens and allows stomach contents to go backwards into the esophagus. If the liquid is very acid it burns the lining of the esophagus. This is painful and if untreated over many years may actually be a risk factor for cancer. Other medications in this class are: Prilosec, Prevacid, Protonix, and Aciphex. H2 blockers are also used, but they are less efficient at turning off the production of acid.

Premarin is actually a one of the oldest estrogen containing drugs It is short for "pregnant mares urine", a rich natural source of estrogens.

[Dr Strangelove]

Back in "the good ol' days" we didn't have ADHD because teachers had an unlimited license to beat the miscreants until they behaved. Is that what you want for your kids?

This way fo doing things still existed when I was a kid. It may have quieted down the more rambunctious kids, but many of them simply left school, even in their elementary years. Those who managed to stick it out through elementary school generally dropped out early in high school. In the 1960s ADHD was first described as "minimal brain dysfunction" and was lumped tgether with dyslexia and dysgraphia. I suspect that one reason that there seems to be an "epidemic" of ADHD is that in "the good ol' days" many kids with ADHD were generally passed off as mentally retarded, or juvenile delinquents.

[Ecthy]

in other words they make medication - orally used - of mere horsepiss?

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Ron Jeremy
Do any of you actually know what clinical depression does?

Have any of you lived with someone suffering from it?

Ignorant ****ers.

It looks like you can mark another date on your character Trappist, we agree again. Let's just hope none of these people ever come down with it or have to deal with someone who had.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Pythagoras


Are you constantly unhappy for no apparent reason for a period of greater than two weeks? Is life a drag? Have you lost interest in things that were once fun? If not you were probably misdiagnosed.

When I see the above things happening over and over I consider it an honest and deadly disease.

It's a part of life, and I'd rather live a life of depression then one where I am doped up on drugs and living a false life.

Depression is an emotion - a part of being human - not a ****ing disease. Learn to deal with it and take it for what it is, don't pretend it's some kind of sickness that all you have to do to get rid of is take a pill - it's your mind telling you something, that it's not happy.

[Pythagoras]

Originally posted by Osweld


It's a part of life, and I'd rather live a life of depression then one where I am doped up on drugs and living a false life.
Depression is an emotion - a part of being human - not a ****ing disease. Learn to deal with it and take it for what it is, don't pretend it's some kind of sickness that all you have to do to get rid of is take a pill - it's your mind telling you something, that it's not happy.

Well I dont think anyone will disagree with most of youre points, but feeling constant sadness for no apparent reason is not normal. Yes depression is an emotion that should happen. But if it happens for no reason and will not go away no matter how hard you try, then its a disease.

Dont be so cynical. DANCE!

[Goingonit]

There is a difference between sadness and depression. Sadness is regular, but depression, a constant, unending, crushing sad feeling with no rational cause, is a serious problem for those who are afected by it. I agree with the points that ADD and depression may be overdiagnosed, but that does not mean that depression isn't a problem that ruins the lives of many people.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Pythagoras



Well I dont think anyone will disagree with most of youre points, but feeling constant sadness for no apparent reason is not normal. Yes depression is an emotion that should happen. But if it happens for no reason and will not go away no matter how hard you try, then its a disease.

Dont be so cynical. DANCE!

I think most of the time people just don't know why they are upset, or they think that their lifestyle isn't a valid reason.

I'll agree that a psychiatrist would be a good place to go to if you are depressed - certainly alot better then popping a pill, anyways.

[Blisterz]

Originally posted by Osweld


It's a part of life, and I'd rather live a life of depression then one where I am doped up on drugs and living a false life.

Depression is an emotion - a part of being human - not a ****ing disease. Learn to deal with it and take it for what it is, don't pretend it's some kind of sickness that all you have to do to get rid of is take a pill - it's your mind telling you something, that it's not happy.

I suffer from clinical depression. And I can tell you it's not just "an emotion". Try spending a good month strait so ****ing depressed you are unable to eat or even get out of bed. The worst run I had was three months, I had to be hospitalized 'cause I was loosing so much weight 'cause I was unable to feed myself.
Sorry, but you are a little off base there.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Blisterz


I suffer from clinical depression. And I can tell you it's not just "an emotion". Try spending a good month strait so ****ing depressed you are unable to eat or even get out of bed. The worst run I had was three months, I had to be hospitalized 'cause I was loosing so much weight 'cause I was unable to feed myself.
Sorry, but you are a little off base there.

Like I said, I was diagnosed as having clinical depression, and I'm speaking from my own experiences. But I personally think that most people with this 'disease' are just unable to cope with it, or understand their problem.