boners dead...

indeed. depression is anger without motivation. much more easily self directed

 

The only person who keeps taking about cartoon watching is you.

I am talking about the way depression gets trivialized just because it isn't visible like a physical disability. As though the person could just stop it if they wanted to.

I've not claimed to be an expert on anything.

And again, settle down. You are not being attacked.

 

I haven't really seen anyone here try to trivialize depression. No one's saying it isn't a serious issue.

I just think everyone here's getting a little too worked up for no good reason.

 

I'm just speaking from personal experience, having been suicidal at a point in my life. and also from what I picked up going through the psych program in college. in the field of psychiatry it's classified as a disorder.. but I'm not exactly sure where "chemical imbalance" came from. I think that is an oversimplification.

also, the fact is the will to survive has to come from within. no person, therapy, or drug is going to pick you up by the boot straps and keep you going in the way that self directed will can. a kick in the ass can help, but that force will wear off soon enough.

there is a person in my life who has been seeking help from doctors his entire life, and now has drug induced Parkinson's disease. coddling will not save a soul. as horrible as depression can be, it's important to keep everything in perspective

 

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was a forum. Silly me. Please go back to thinking that if everybody claps really hard, they can save Tinkerbell.

 

YOU CAN'T?! dammit. i'm gonna go watch wubzy.

 

Because this was what originally started this disagreement. I thought it was only logical to keep clarifying my point since you kept misunderstanding my intentions.

I never said this. I never would say this. I know from experience that this is not the case.

Nor have I, just that I know what my own experience was like and thus do not need to be schooled on the subject. I'm not a role model or a doctor. I just know what I've been through and how I got through it. Personally, I never seriously considered suicide, though it crossed my mind as an option at times, the way having a tuna sandwich for lunch has crossed my mind. Luckily, I had the option to resist. Does that mean I didn't really have depression because I never hit that rock bottom? No. Do I still know what the disease feels like? Yes, I do, and I don't need to be told that it's a big deal.

Could have fooled me. "I think you're ignorant because you don't know what you're talking about" sounds like fighting words to me, or at the very least an unfair assumption.