I'm With Alan Brazil

Hipster_Nebula wrote:How would I know considering I'm not a doctor? And, I hate to break it to you, neither are you.

If you were really interested in the topic, which you're not, you'd educate yourself.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:

Though I certainly hope it doesn't happen, I'm sure you will tell a loved one or a relative struggling with depression or mental illness that they're faking it and for them not to seek help and just "get on with it." The kind of sad regressive nonsense that sadly leads to people young and old living a life of personal torment or worse. 

Breadman wrote:Hipster....what are you doing?

Deny the fire oxygen and it goes out quickly........

bwfc1874 wrote:To be honest you don't need to be a doctor to see the effects of depression. 

One of my close friends has suffered from severe depression over the last few years, it runs in his family but has been perpetuated by events in his own life. Going to university helped, kept him busy, plenty of interaction etc but since he graduated in June he's been slipping back into his old ways. He's normally very active, goes to the gym, socialises a lot but you can barely get him out of bed never mind out the house and when he does he's in his own world and if you get him talking it only ever leads back to the issue which set off his problems - it's literally like being with a different person.

It's a very real disease that is easy to recognise if you have any experience of it.

bwfc1874 wrote:I said it helped, he certainly wasn't happy. He'd still have down times when you couldn't reason with him, it's just that being in social situations and having less time to obsess over it helped. He's also been on the highest dose of anti-depressants for the last few years which helps keep him up.

It's nothing to do with boredom.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Good point I'll take your word for it over the doctors and scientists who study patients day in day out for the their whole lives.

So I'll ask you the question Breadman chickened out of answering - how can a doctor diagnose "depression" in a 15 minute appointment?

Does he have a scale of how pissed off a person is?

Bit unhappy: Dougie Freedman becomes manager
Unhappy: Bolton sign Darren Pratley
Very unhappy: Bolton get stuffed at Watford
Suicidal: Freedman gets new 10 year contract

Breadman wrote:Nat, normally you're quite funny but this is just degenerating into pointless, offensive drivel.

You've got your reaction.

Why not let it go....?

bwfc1874 wrote:How do you expect somebody who has no energy to leave the house and obsesses over one small part of his life to go out and find a girlfriend?

Anti-depressants are incredibly difficult to come off, leading to users getting even more depressed than they would have been. He's pretty dependant on them now.

Just drop it Nat.