(February 25, 2018 at 10:20 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Are any of you considering the difference between endogenous vs exogenous, psychologic vs biologic or situational vs intrinsic depression?
A job could help if the source of depression is loosing a job. But other than that, probably not much help.
Don't forget that depression that begins as extrinsic can lead to intrinsic.
Sure, but that wasn't the situation in question. Moreover, if you become clinically depressed from losing a job, you likely had a biological propensity toward depression. The majority of people don't suffer from clinical depression upon losing a job. They get bummed out, sure, but that's a really far stretch from the "real thing."
I never had depression or anxiety until I was in my late 20s. It really threw me for a loop just how physical it was and how different from sadness and even grief I had felt in my life. It was so different in fact that I wouldn't even call it sadness. I could never even begin to explain what it's actually like to someone who's never had it.