Posted by europerep on June 15, 2011, at 9:48:33
In reply to Re: Medicating Unhappiness, posted by floatingbridge on June 14, 2011, at 18:13:22
> I'm not riding this conversation through again.
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> The topic is too muddied.
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> If someone treats 'mere' unhappiness with an ssri, sobeit. That's a topic onto itself.
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> Can those with MDD, Bipolar disorder, etc be left outside the sweeping philosophical discussion?Agreed.
I do believe that not every "depression" is MDD. Recently, in the chat of a different forum, a woman (30yrs) told me how she too suffered from depression. Before, she told me how she loved her new job, how she was on vacation a few months ago and it was great, and how she was going to a great party that weekend which would surely be lots of fun. Right... If you're able to do these things, you don't suffer from depression. Maybe she did at some point in her life, but when she mentioned depression she was clearly talking present tense.
I feel we need to understand depression better, and if it's just to have a test that her doctor could do on her and then tell her "you don't have depression".
But saying that all depression is unhappiness is nonsense in my eyes.
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