(August 10, 2015 at 12:36 pm)abaris Wrote: That's a job for professionals. Not Gurus, pastors, priests or well meaning individuals. You don't know what a real clinical depression entails until you suffered from it. I did and to say I underestimated what other people said about being depressed, would be an understatment. To an outsider, who never had been in that situation, it's virtually undescribable. And that's why nobody, not trained to treat that illness, should attempt to do anything about it.
I think what was meant was that collectively we should educate each other about depression, as in a similar manner to a school ciriculum. In the U.S., as I'm sure they do in other countries, we have classes in school for teenagers that teach life skills and sex education. That would be a place to introduce material that was pre-approved by professionals.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
