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Even if they have had something done to them by someone, … they're still depressed? Holding people accountable is nice (though I agree that not all causes of de
by deathanatos 3y ago
Even if they have had something done to them by someone, … they're still depressed? Holding people accountable is nice (though I agree that not all causes of depression are necessarily from acts we'd consider needing accountability), but the post above seems akin to saying "we need to hold the shooter responsible, but we don't need to treat that gunshot wound"?
- NopeSlide 3y agoWhat I'm saying is more akin to "you're being strangled, and we should take the person's hand off your neck"
- deathanatos 3y agoIt's not that simple. Depression doesn't magically evaporate the moment the abuse stops.
- the_af 3y agoIn many cases of clinical depression, there's no "strangling" event.
- the_af 3y agoWhere did you get that idea? (Edit: or did you mean the post above mine?) I'm saying depression sometimes has an identifiable trigger and sometimes it doesn't. In both cases it's a serious disease. For many cases of depression, there's no identifiable "trigger" you can point at and say "this, this is the reason this person started suffering from depression". Even when there is such a trigger, e.g. a divorce, losing their job, or the death of a loved one (say, a parent), people who are not depressed can overcome it. Life goes on, you don't get wrecked forever, you slowly rebuild your life. Whereas a person suffering from depression may never recover, so that a dramatic event in their lives overpowers everything else, forever, and they fail to recover, if they do at all. The person I'm replying to seems to imply the depressive "let's get wrecked forever, life has no more meaning" is the "correct" response, and on the contrary, that picking up your life is "sick".