I don't believe in depression

This is quite frankly the dumbest thing I’ve read all day... I’ve lost people and I struggle with it myself. People with depression have often been the kindest people I’ve met out there. It’s not a choice and it isn’t self-centeredness.

You are completely clueless... how dare you call people with depression selfish ... tell me how selfishness altered their brain chemistry? It’s an organic disease , not a subjective one you can look down your nose at !

anyone who doesn't believe in depression has never experienced a debilitating injury and/or intense pain...

Come back when you loose a child and tell me how if feels

Then you're just ignorant. And don't count.

Is this a ploy to get lots of coins? 👀

Depression is caused by chemicals in the brain.

For some people depression is a habit. For many others it is a chemical imbalance and they are not able to control it. You really should get some facts and not say such ignorant and judgmental things about something you clearly know nothing about

Good luck with that. Try being layed off in a bad economy. Try being told that your spouse of ten years doesn't love you anymore and wants to move in with a coworker. Try being pregnant only to have the child die in the second trimester. Try coming home from overseas and when you get your dog realize that it has leukemia. Try sitting with your beautiful, wonderful, girlfriend as she's dying of ovarian cancer. Try playing a game of Scrabble with your mother as she is failing from altzheimers.... Yes some things are just sad, but some things are downright depressing.

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/depression/what-is-depression
What Is Depression? - American Psychiatric Association


Mental illness, bud.

Well if it does not exsist I wonder why people who have depression and anxiety are prescribed medication for it by medical doctors who actually know what they are talking about?

It's sad that you have no compassion for those who battle one of the most terrifying disorders. Depression is very real. It takes a toll on those who suffer with it as well as those who love and care for them. I know this very firsthand.

CC, you've touched on something that will be rejected by many. This is what the shrinks aim for in treating "clinical depression" but they try to be very gradual when it comes to the approach. "Clinical depression " is a 'real ' condition with physiological manifestations in the brain itself. The brain in simplest terms is a mass of 'receivers', processors, and transmitters . You have neurons, axons, dendrites, and synapses where electrical impulses cause the release of chemicals known as neurotransmitters. Sometimes there is a problem where certain neurotransmitters are depleted and you have depression, or there is a surplus and you have psychosis or schizophrenia....Very delicate and intricate stuff. I personally believe a proper diet and certain elixirs and tonics and healthy exercise can control clinical depression better than seratonin reuptake inhibitors and such.......

Lololololol this is cute.

It can be either genetically pre-disposed and due to lack of serotonin or inproper re-uptake of serotonin or it can be external.

If you'd been through heart break, suicide attempts, several loved ones dying, immense psychological stress, watching friends waste away to heroin, being acutely aware of the nature of human cruelty from a young age, domestic abuse, extreme physical violence, having close friends that were raped/abused, you wouldn't say something as naive as that.

It in fact comes mostly from caring about others happiness and seeing it ripped away from them, whilst nothing changes. It's not all about yourself.

A very sheltered perspective indeed.

I hope you get depression so that you can understand the pain and helplessness it can make you feel. Your belief is unfounded.

You’re a fucking moron.

oh, i thought you were cool

My mum got depressed after being diagnosed with cancer. How fucking selfish of her, right?

What the hell? Depression is scientifically proven to exist. It affects many people and that is why I am on medicine for DEPRESSION.

It's quite sad that you view depression with such a closed mind.
It is also incredibly naive to think that your happiness comes from others.

Depression is an illness. It effects the mind rather than the body but it is an illness all the same. As someone who has suffered from acute depression for several years I am really disappointed by your statement. This is the sort of negative stigma that I have to deal with which is what makes it so hard to seek help for depression. Would you ever call a diabetic or cancer sufferer selfish?

On the contrary it's about a lack of self belief not self centredness at all, which can be explained biologically or due to past experiences. I'm disappointed you'd say something like this

Just like everyone in the world, depressed people all think differently, and are affected by depression differently. Some just want to be left alone in that slump, and others (lots of others) go to counseling, reach out, try to change their ways, take meds and still cannot get away from their depression. I don't think your opinion is ignorant, but lumping everyone together is, because everyone is different, and I hope someone that is depressed and does their best doesn't read what you've said and puts them in a lower state.

I hope that you never have to live with it!!!

I like you so I'm going to be amicable about this. I can [i]kinda[/i] see where you're coming from since there are people out there who are only feeling sorry for themselves; that or they can easily fix their depression by finding it within themselves but this isn't the case for everyone. For many, depression is something they cannot help, whether its brought upon by experiencing loss and hardships or is something that is caused by a mental/mood disorder. Calling anyone who experiences depression self-centered and selfish is really unfair because it's a statement that simply isn't true for everybody. I can see that your view is firmly rooted in this idea so I doubt anything I say will change your mind but there's my two cents anyway. I just hope you are able to change your mind on this subject someday. Whether you do or not, I hope you at least understand how incendiary your opinion on this is and why you got some of the responses you have here.

i believe happiness is a choice, not a destination

its so sad you dont

I didn’t expect you out of all people to say something like this

I think somebody got into methdozers stash.🤔

i don't believe in this post, thanks for depressing me. now where is the Cake

So please tell me what I’m going through right now. 🙄

Then you clearly know nothing about depression.

*gets the popcorn*

Depression is for people who live in the past well worrying about the future to much it's a curse on the human psyche

You can strongly believe you are the tooth fairy and that still doesn't make it reality.

Fortunately, no one seems to take this crap seriously.

@Sepia That is crazy, right? In this metaphor you're the wall. Therefore trying to talk to you is crazy.

Be careful, people will be wanting miracles, and healing, and then they will try to get you into politics, and the next thing you know............BAM! They nail ya to a friggin cross!

I appreciate your words.

But I do believe that if it is to come to you for one reason or the other, you cant help it.

Wow! You are are getting tons of attention aren't you? ALL negative...but, you are a small and pathetic little creature and you'll take it! Better than none at all

I feel like believing others happiness as ur own creates more emptiness, at least for me

Most of people here are as hard headed just as when the verification was released. You are all too hard but when it comes to good posts you don't seem to answer. There is a lot of hate which make you guys more ignorant than me haha