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Re: Depression vs. life circumstances

Posted by lilj on July 8, 2004, at 10:35:06

In reply to Re: Depression vs. life circumstances, posted by linkadge on July 8, 2004, at 8:37:07

Linkage -- thank you so much for this post -- I constantly battle with the am I really depressed because of situation or do I need help -- when you said depressed people have a "every man for himself" attitude, it totally hit home.

I completey tend to isolate and feel that, no one can help me kind of attitude. I've never had someone describe depression in this way, thanks again!!
Jen

> It is natural for your mood to change with lifes circumstances however it is not necessarily normal for you to enter a state of clinical depression during a stressful time.
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> Do you know that suicide in england reached an all time low during the second world war? Many people are invigorated by lifes challenges. I think events like this brought people together, giving the sence of a strong support network.
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> I think that non depressed people have a greater support network, family, friends, church,work, prayer, whatever. When things go wrong they feel no shame in asking for help. When we had hard times a while ago, our church was so supportive. Bringing food, cleaning our house, paying our bills etc. I think its all about the support network.
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> Depressed people have a way of iscolating themselves, and getting into "Every man for himself" type of thinking. Non depressed people know *all* of their options, and use them.
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> It really is in the way you think. For me however, it wasn't till I took medicaton that I got an idea of how well people functioned :)
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> Just my 2 cents.
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