RE: 25% of the British are Mentally Ill (UK Chief Medical officer)
January 17, 2015 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2015 at 9:00 am by Newtonscat.)
(January 16, 2015 at 12:20 pm)abaris Wrote:(January 16, 2015 at 11:34 am)Newtonscat Wrote: Under no circumstances would I personally be happy to be thought of as having a 'mental illness' by those who had authority and influence over my life. I know what depression is and have my own very effective ways of dealing with it when I perceive that its causing me problems.
I call bullshit on that one. And ignorant bullshit at that. If you've got acute clinical depression, there's no way anyone can deal with it on their own. Before I had it, I thought like you, that I can deal with being depressed, but then I got hit by the real thing.
Like sitting for hours unable to move? Like forgetting that you have a job and should be at work? Like being unable to take your clothes off 'cos you can't remember how? Like being unable to get more than 5 words into a conversation before you lose track of what is being said? Like getting lost a hundred yards from your home 'cos you don't recognise where you are? I've been there.
With some people who are taking anti-depressants its reasonable to say to them: What is it you want that you can't get? or You have to work out to what extent you're the instrument of your own despair.
With other scenarios there's something really deep going on.
The term 'Depression' was highjacked when psychiatric drugs became the rage.
