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Diagnosed with Depression? - 6/6/2007 12:59:47 PM

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Were you diagnosed with Depression? Do you believe in it? Do you agree with the diagnosis? How do you cope? Are you happy?

I was diagnosed with Depression when I was maybe 12 years old. I refused meds or any "help" as the "help" offered only seemed to hurt me. I grew up in therapy..... because of being adopted, having health issues, and my parents divorcing. Therapy does nothing for me. I could literally talk my way out of that paper bag so easily. It seems to go back and forth, without truly fixing the problems. I know and have always known how to cope with things, it is merely a lack of desire to accept things as they are, and often the true inability to flip them around, at that point it was due to the fact that I wasn't an adult. These days it is merely the choices of fate, and luck.

What did I do to become happy? Got the heck out of therapy! It kept spinning me around and around... I felt like a ping pong ball... when I got out into the world I kept begging to be released to I felt 100% better.

We all have trouble sometimes, and certain things which just urk us a bit, we all desire a better world, a more simple yet beautiful one. That does not make a person depressed. Some people are happy in sadness, just as some people as we all can grasp in a place like this, enjoy pain. Some people find greater meaning and joy in dwelling on sad things, it sometimes makes them better people, not always of course.

I believe that being labeled with Depression more often than not is giving a person a valid sometimes legal excuse to procrastinate and not "live" but merely exist. Far too many times I have had friends who I asked to do things with me and they would say "I can't today, I'm depressed, maybe when these meds kick in" ~ months later "Oh, they're changing my meds, maybe when they kick in" ~ later still "Maybe some day, this is a long term thing you know" ~ Years later "Sorry......... I just can't"............ These are true examples of excuses I have been given........

A way I used to make myself happy is by smiling. As soon as you smile, it tends to do something....... it just, lifts you. We all survive as long as we are meant to. Whatever you do, make sure it truly makes you happy, and is important to you. So many times I hear young adults saying that they listen to angry music when they are upset because it "helps" them..... it doesn't..... it more often than not makes them hostile, and more sad..... with a "Fuck You" attitude towards the world...... If you're one of the rare few who uses it as a true release well then bravo! You're a rare gem and deserve applause for it. It is difficult, but you just need to release those feelings into the beat of the music, and not inflate them.

Anyway, enough ramble from me........ So.... get yappin! Oh, and SMILE! :)

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RE: Diagnosed with Depression? - 6/6/2007 1:29:23 PM

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I'm glad that worked for you.

In my family not taking the medications leads to suicide, in every generation prior to the development of modern SSRI's there were suicides and suicide attempts.

For us, diagnosis by a highly qualified professional and immediate treatment with medication and therapy with a skilled clinical psychologist trained in pediatric and adolescent needs has led to remarkable successes including acceptances into some of the top universities in the nation.

Social workers instead for therapy? Not for us. Pediatrician or general practitioner instead of board certified specialists? Not for us.

And you might be interested in knowing that MRIs done as part of autopsies of suicides show brain changes. If it shows up as something quantifiable, then that's real enough for me.

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RE: Diagnosed with Depression? - 6/6/2007 1:32:06 PM

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There is a syndrome (dont recall the name) where supposedly a diagnosis is taken up by the patient and fulfilled. We studied it in psychology - the idea being that if you name someone schizophrenic, they will start acting schizophrenic. From personal experience (regretful experience at that) someone I know was diagnosed by some quack (for she was not qualified to do so) with Asperger's. Sure, he had a few issues, but from checking on the DSM, he certainly didnt have Asperger's, but within a few weeks he was a full blown case, and what was worse, acting up and blaming it on his supposed condition. He lost his job, his wife, his car and his home as a result.

As for depression - yes, I had an acute episode a few years ago. I will never forget the look on the therapist's face (nice lady) when she started up with some or other guff, and despite my suicidal mood, or maybe because of it, I just looked at her and told her that I'm very intelligent and she'd better come up with something better, real quick. She did her best, but it was really self help that turned things around for me, and in a strange way; I concluded that if I really were the worthless piece of shit that I then thought myself to be, and worthy of death for what I'd brought on others, then the best and most fitting punishment would be for me to live, and suicide would be far too merciful by way of curtailing that aim. The depression is still there in the background, a chronic but low level presence that varies in intensity, but I'm coming to understand him slowly, and one of these days he will finally die that I might live.

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