(April 2, 2014 at 3:39 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: However the wrong attitude is to say 'well I'm depressed, I can't do anything about it, it's not caused by anything, feel bad for me.'
But have you heard anyone here actually say that? What I hear is people trying desperately to squash the misconception that depression is merely a matter of personal responsibility and that one person's experiences do not necessarily dictate how another should be able to cope. I have yet to see someone claim that there is nothing to be done about it, but, I have, in fact, seen several people point out that taking personal responsibility was an important factor in the recovery process.
And frankly, it's more than a little bit insulting when you state that attempting to garnish pity is the wrong attitude when the majority of people mentioning their depression here are not guilty of that.
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
