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Originally posted by Epona:
No I agree it doesn't help anyone, and that people should seek help, but I still think that you have completely failed to understand what depression is, how it overwhelms your life, drains your energy, leaves you feeling cut off from the world, unable to move, unable to function, unable to talk to anyone about what you're going through. There is also the issue of the stigma attached to depression and other mental health issues. It can be totally paralysing.
If only it was as simple as just going to get help.
Fortunately I have never suffered from depression, but I have lived and shared my life for a time with someone who did. When you see someone you care for, an intelligent person with a lot to offer, spend most of their time asleep and their waking hours withdrawn or crying for reasons that they cannot even begin to explain to you, the total hopelessness that they see - when you have talked someone like that out of suicide once - when you have seen them take a bottle of pills because it has all become too much - then you can begin to understand.
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[img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] Epona. Well said.
But there is help to be had if you are depressed. Both medical and mental. Unfortunately this line of research does not get the praise and media time it deserves. Therefore it tends to be unheard of. There is a lot of research being done on schizophrenia and any depression. Some answers have been found whereas several remain unknown. The best advice to give anyone with a depression; the earlier you get professional help, the shorter time you will have to live with it. Of course not all can be treated and some can't even be helped. But you will get support and caring. And perhaps that is enough. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Johnny, I agree with you that suicide isn't the best solution. But by your standards in the post I above one could just as easily accuse familly/friends for being too selfish not to help.
[ 05-31-2003, 07:23 AM: Message edited by: WillowIX ]