bonehead, I think you understood the gist of my post but misinterpretted the details and slammed me on them. Certainly clinical depression is real and I didn't mean to imply that it is not. I am just aggravated at the trend in society these days to blame things that go wrong in our lives on anyone but ourselves, and I think there is some of that here too. Though as someone else insightfully pointed out in this thread, that is really only half the problem, at least in this arena.
Mental illness doesn't equal sad. It _is_ normal to be "sad".... but major depression is something different.
Correct. I think the problem is that normal sadness/depression is too often mislabeled as a mental disorder, either by the psycs or by the people themselves. Wouldn't life be great if all we had to do when we got sad was pop a pill that made us happy? That's not the way it is. Being sad/depressed is part of a normal life and we need to learn to deal with it in a healthy way.
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bonehead, I think you understood the gist of my post but misinterpretted the details and slammed me on them. Certainly clinical depression is real and I didn't mean to imply that it is not. I am just aggravated at the trend in society these days to blame things that go wrong in our lives on anyone but ourselves, and I think there is some of that here too. Though as someone else insightfully pointed out in this thread, that is really only half the problem, at least in this arena.
Correct. I think the problem is that normal sadness/depression is too often mislabeled as a mental disorder, either by the psycs or by the people themselves. Wouldn't life be great if all we had to do when we got sad was pop a pill that made us happy? That's not the way it is. Being sad/depressed is part of a normal life and we need to learn to deal with it in a healthy way.