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And great if you're feeling better! > I'm much happier now, because I'm not ill; I just have lots of reasons to be fed-up. Reminds me of what Jordan Peterson
by lytefm 4y ago
And great if you're feeling better!
> I'm much happier now, because I'm not ill; I just have lots of reasons to be fed-up.
Reminds me of what Jordan Peterson often mentions in his Podcasts:
When a patient comes in and tells they are depressed, he asks how the life is going. If things are going fine but the person feels depressed - might be a depressive episode or depression then.
But let's say they're a young adult, have no friends, no job and spend their whole day playing computer games and watching porn - then life just sucks and they need to work on that instead of getting meds.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI should have added a smiley or something; what I was trying to imply was that being diagnosed and treated for depression made things worse for me, and that my rejection of that diagnosis in itself improved my mood. Let me put it another way: if you have some cause to be fed-up, and then some shrink diagnoses you with depression, you now have two reasons to be fed-up. Like as not, your original cause of fed-upness could be remedied; but depression is uncurable, all they can do is treat the symptoms. And reportedly, the treatment can be worse than the disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressants_and_suicide_risk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressants_and_suicide_ri... I don't mean to suggest that depression doesn't exist. But it's wildly over-diagnosed; I suspect that depression is often diagnosed because it's massively cheaper to write a scrip for a bottle of some shifty "mood-regulator" than to look closely into their life circumstances, history of trauma, relationships with others etc.