I got a reply via email to my first post on depression that I'd like to share. This is a great article. I am one of the ones that would have come up to you during a break but over time I have raised my hand many times to the question "Who takes antidepressants" and I now comfortably say "I do and I don't have the desire to get off of them. If it is working then why rock the boat". I don't happen to enjoy being depressed. It is all over my...
If you don't experience depression it is likely to be mysterious to you. It's probable that you think it's something like feeling low or gloomy. That's reasonable since without having the experience you can't have any reference for what it is like. While it's devilishly hard to describe to someone who doesn't experience it, it's usually pretty easy to communicate with someone who's walked that road. But there are many different kinds of...
I've attended workshops, the personal development kind, in the past with up to a couple of hundred people in the room. There were times, lots of times, when the topic under discussion was what doesn't work for you in your life. People would talk about jobs, relationships, family, history and all the myriad issues that human beings struggle with. There would be one notable absence in the discussion; the word depression. We'd talk...