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Depression as you mean it is a proper state for a person to be be in when his life and the world about him seem to be very wrong. To delete depression rather t
by garbagetime 6y ago
Depression as you mean it is a proper state for a person to be be in when his life and the world about him seem to be very wrong.
To delete depression rather than addressing the root causes seems strange and inhuman.
- BurningFrog 6y agoThe root causes are often unfixable. So you try to fix the other side of the equation. Often it means adjusting unrealistic expectations. Like if I'm sad because I'm not a famous movie star. You could either make me a movie star, or make me accept that this is very likely not going to happen, and that's OK. Nothing inhuman about that.
- squiggleblaz 6y agoThe root cause of that isn't that you're not a famous movie star. It's that you have so ordered your life that all happiness depends on being a famous movie star. There's parts of that equation that can be changed: teaching you how to have reasonable goals might be one of them. Ignoring the fact that you're sad because you're not a famous movie star and giving you a happy pill is the inhuman step. It's the old adage in spades: "Give someone a fish and they'll eat for a day; teach them to fish and they'll eat for the rest of their life." Happiness in pill form is not happiness.