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	sarajayechan 2004-09-06 05:01 pm UTC (link)
	looks at the entry Bitch, please. Depression IS a fucking illness! Yes, sometimes people make a big deal of diagnosing it just cause someone shows "symptoms" like, ONCE, but it exists. It just varies with every person. Then again, I'm no doctor or expert on the subject so I could be wrong. Even so... (Reply to this)(Thread)

I wank here to avoid wanking there. -

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	ladybirdsleeps 2004-09-06 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	I have nothing clever to say to that steaming pile of pseudo-scientific dog shit, so I think I'll just fart in his direction. (Reply to this)

ingrid
2004-09-06 06:16 pm UTC (link)

Depression? You lazy, git! Go out! Get some sunshine! Get some exercise!

Too bad that the extreme fatigue and anxiety depression causes STOPS you from doing all of the above, even when you'd desperately like to.

Because that would have saved me a whole lot of money way back when.

Sunshine is free, medication not so much ... even us overly medicated attention-whores know that much.

*eyeroll*

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	big_bad_wolf 2004-09-06 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, depression isn't an illness and neither is cystic fibrosis. Nice try, wankhat! Come again when you're too tired to get out of bed and too fucked up to eat. Please, do. I'll LAUGH you into the sunshine and fresh air. (Reply to this)

	electricchick 2004-09-06 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	Er, yes. My fifty-year-old aunt is suffering from depression because of a behavioral response to adolescence. Yes, depression is in your mind. It's an illness in your mind. (Reply to this)

ARGH!!!

moonjaguar
2004-09-06 06:28 pm UTC (link)

Oh man... I gotta stay away before I kick her in the head. Well, enough people are responding in her journal saying "Stop the car, mitardtai" so I guess I don't need to come in there with my boots on.

I've gone on about how I think some people who are on medication don't always need to be (medication faddists, I hear these young girls talking casually on the bus about the latest scripts and how their doctors changed them from one to another as if they were talking about hair colors or permanents and hairdressers--sheesh, when I was a teen being on "crazy pills" and going to a shrink was something you kept secret and if anyone saw you taking those pills the explanation was "I have allergies") and how some people need to get off their asses and quit whining because they do a disservice to people who really need help. Mitard is the flip side of that and she is yet another person who does a disservice in a big way to people who genuinely need help.

I for one don't have depression. I have times where I'm depressed, at most it lasts a couple days and goes away on its own, I call them my "bummers" or "downs" and for me it's a reaction to a situation (like having a three day migraine... chronic pain makes people feel depressed). I don't expect people to be like me who has the bummers fade in a day or three, in fact I consider myself damn fortunate, just in the same way that I never had PMS when I still had my uterus, just in the same way I feel fortunate I don't have a number of conditions other people have.

People like her smugly lalalaing about vitamins, diet, sunshine and shiny happies are patronizing shits. I've known enough people with actual major depression (episodes or ongoing) who required serious help. And the "it's all in your head", saying that to anyone is enough to make me want to kick someone. I've known so many people get "it's all in your head" for conditions ranging from depression to migraines to life-threatening ectopic (sp?) pregnancies. One of my "it's all in your head" turned out to be temporal lobe epilepsy.

I better quit now because this is going beyond "bitch, please". "It's all in your head" is one of those phrases that makes me want to go on a killing spree. I think I better go do something like wash the floor or come up with a navigation menu or something.

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sarajayechan, 2004-09-07 01:00 am UTC

	allen 2004-09-06 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	Amusingly enough (or perhaps not), I remember her having this same argument with Alara Rogers over in comicfandom, with pretty much the same points, with the same results. That had to have been well over four years ago. Jeez. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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