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Maybe its useful to discern between 'rational depression' and 'medical depression' .. by firstly labeling them as such ? I don't know how you'd differentiate b
by jgord 11y ago
Maybe its useful to discern between 'rational depression' and 'medical depression' .. by firstly labeling them as such ?
I don't know how you'd differentiate between this formally, but it seems there is a massive difference - and they need different solutions.
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- sean-duffy 11y agoI believe the medical terminology is exogenous and endogenous depression, where exogenous is due to external factors and endogenous is independent of them.
- jgord 11y ago.. awareness of the distinction seems absent from the article, and from a lot of popular articles I've read. My point is that it would help if this distinction permeated into the popular discourse on depression ... [ Awareness of the distinction might make the general public more likely to question the morality of pumping up soldiers with anti-depressant drugs before they go into battle, for example ]