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Topic	People need to try and understand and respect those with depression a lot better
Soviet_Poland 10/22/17 9:39:15 PM #18:	Back_Stabbath posted... he's not wrong dude. it's a common tactic to fake depression in my country because it gives you eligibility to sick pay and people just use it as "get out of responsibility free" card. it's insulting, and ruining things for those who actually do suffer because we aren't taken seriously. People get away with that because in general people are 100% ignorant about what depression is. A lot of people think it is centrally about having a bad or low mood. That's such an incomplete picture. SIGECAPS Sleep Interest Guilt Energy Concentration Appetite Psychomotor Sucidiality People have varying levels of these features, but it affects one's sleep patterns. It removes the joy in previous interests. It leaves one with a feeling of inexplicable guilt. It affects your energy levels, concentration, and appetite. You tend to be sluggish. It's not "all in one's head." It's very much a physical syndrome. Depressed mood just happens to be one facet of it, which is why it's so terribly named. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how this affects someone's life. You withdraw from friends and loved ones. They might not recognize it as a sign of depression, they just take it is that person being aloof. It affects work or school performance drastically. You can never get enough sleep, you don't eat, you don't have energy to do anything. It necessarily makes it so you don't seek treatment. And it's common. 1 in 5 will experience it in their lives. It's so treatable too, but because people tend to value their own interpretations of what depression is or how to approach it, it needlessly gets left untreated. Whether by the symptoms themselves, or otherwise the stigma of getting treatment in the first place. I explain it as a "cold of the soul/mind" to lay people sometimes. --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete." <cite>Soviet_Poland posted [p:888944418] in People nee... [t:75908606]...</cite> <quote><cite>Back_Stabbath posted...</cite> <quote>he's not wrong dude. it's a common tactic to fake depression in my country because it gives you eligibility to sick pay and people just use it as "get out of responsibility free" card. it's insulting, and ruining things for those who actually do suffer because we aren't taken seriously.</quote> People get away with that because in general people are 100% ignorant about what depression is. A lot of people think it is centrally about having a bad or low mood. That's such an incomplete picture. SIGECAPS Sleep Interest Guilt Energy Concentration Appetite Psychomotor Sucidiality People have varying levels of these features, but it affects one's sleep patterns. It removes the joy in previous interests. It leaves one with a feeling of inexplicable guilt. It affects your energy levels, concentration, and appetite. You tend to be sluggish. It's not "all in one's head." It's very much a physical syndrome. Depressed mood just happens to be one facet of it, which is why it's so terribly named. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how this affects someone's life. You withdraw from friends and loved ones. They might not recognize it as a sign of depression, they just take it is that person being aloof. It affects work or school performance drastically. You can never get enough sleep, you don't eat, you don't have energy to do anything. It necessarily makes it so you don't seek treatment. And it's common. 1 in 5 will experience it in their lives. It's so treatable too, but because people tend to value their own interpretations of what depression is or how to approach it, it needlessly gets left untreated. Whether by the symptoms themselves, or otherwise the stigma of getting treatment in the first place. I explain it as a "cold of the soul/mind" to lay people sometimes. --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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