ScooterTrash
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Joined: 1/24/2005 From: Indiana Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: DoctorDubious quote:
ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash I have heard of people with depression (medically speaking), but have never witnessed it. To me it just seems like a generic coverall term for folks who can't seem to get past the "glass half empy" syndrome. Sure, things get tough, but you pull yourself up by the bootstraps and move on. Maybe it's just me, but I can't see letting the bad consequences in life get you down, it seems to make more sense (to me) to not just curl up in the corner, but get out there and change what has gone wrong. I know it's not that simple for someone with bonafide depression, but having had no first hand experience with it, it just seems that it's a lack of positive attitude when you are looking at it from the outside, looking in. I could never get depressed, I would be too busy trying to fix the problem. Hey Scooter... and all.... Bullshit. Ignorant, uninformed bullshit. Maybe even well-intentioned bullshit. but simply bullshit none the less. DD PS... this BS about "positive attitudes" is why talking therapies are almost useless for depression, and why serotonin re-uptake inhibitors work pretty well. er, uh, excuse me? Amazing how I put something quite politely and explain that it's only my observation, my opinion, then I get slammed, telling me it's BS? Sorry Doc...but apparently you missed something in your schooling, the fomulation of a thought or belief is just that, simply an observation based on witnessed events. It's not like I stated I was some expert or something or claimed I was positively right...so I take exception to the ignorant remark, I stated I had not witnessed clinical depression. I won't get into a pissing contest over this, but I have yet to meet anyone in the medical field that exactly dazzled me either, but I don't generally tell them they are full of it. Perhaps from now on...read the posts, don't attempt to read into them what's not there.
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