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Is it possible that to be clinically depressed (on the milder end of the scale, perhaps) for years and be unaware of the fact?
by barking 10y ago
Is it possible that to be clinically depressed (on the milder end of the scale, perhaps) for years and be unaware of the fact?
- DanBC 10y agoYes. Good clinicians should be trying to recognise subthreshold symptoms and providing advice. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs8 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs8 > This quality standard covers the assessment and clinical management of persistent subthreshold depressive symptoms, or mild, moderate or severe depression in adults (including people with a chronic physical health problem).
- johnchristopher 10y agoUnfortunately, yes.
- Jtsummers 10y agoYes. The worst part, for me, with depression is that my actions and beliefs were actually entirely rational during those periods. But the premises of my beliefs were false. Think of an axiomatic system for math, but add in 2+2=5. You can draw some interesting conclusions from such a system, but the basic premise has a critical flaw. Internally, you don't see it. You only see it from the outside.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoVery much so. For example, Dysthymia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysthymia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysthymia) often goes untreated. Some people develop this at a really young age, and simply don't know any differently. It seems that Atypical depression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypical_depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypical_depression) can probably result in the same unawaredness, due to having positive feelings to positive situations.