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A quick poll on depression you guys. How many of you guys have been diagnosed/treated for depression in the past?

A better question would be.. have you ever been or felt chronically depressed and never gotten treatment?

Getting treatment and on medication right now.

Considering I drink 5 pots of coffee per day, I think I'm usually too wired to ever get "down."

Ive been severely depressed before. I did not seek treatment.
It was a dark, unhappy time.

Had it quite bad a couple of years ago. Had treatment and meds. Getting much better now.

Yep. Got meds, lots of them, and for a long time. Finally finished.

Never, although I think I do have a great amount of social anxiety...

I should be on meds. I have something called "Major depressive Syndrome" which sounds like so much jackshit horsecrap nonsense to me. Mayhaps my mommy didn't hug me enough? I was supposed to take wellbutrin, but I quit that crap and just started smoking more. that seems to help

Had SAD before.

Now I know the signs and how to avoid it so hopefully I won't get it again.

I was on Paxil. I think it was for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but I don't take it anymore. Whatever's wrong with me, I'm pretty sure it's closer to SAD.

I have issues with being diagnosed. But my behaviour is probably bipolar

I had it but never got diagnosed, it don't take a doctor to know that feeling like shit everyday and wanting to jump off a cliff ain't good. Never got it treated either, it just eventually went away after I made some hard choices.

I get depressed sometimes. This is normal. I moved on.

Is it just me, or is it becoming popular to have psychological disorders or learning disabilities? Every time some two-bit idiot accidentally writes two letters in reverse order, he claims he's dyslexic. Every time someone has a bad day, he claims he's chronically depressed. Every time someone has a mood swing, he's bipolar. What's with this? Do people not like having healthy psyches?

Trytostaydead wrote:A quick poll on depression you guys. How many of you guys have been diagnosed/treated for depression in the past?

Not me.

A better question would be.. have you ever been or felt chronically depressed and never gotten treatment?

Nope. I guess it's tempting for me to just dismiss depression and say that it's all in your head, but perhaps I'm just abnormally content with my life.

i occasionally get "down", but its nothing unusual, everyone has their bad days.

Aside from when extremely tired ( ), I'm fairly stable in my moods, usually this ranges from very happy to generally calm and good natured, but this depends on events, I've been lucky not to have anything that would cause depression.

Darth Wong wrote:Nope. I guess it's tempting for me to just dismiss depression and say that it's all in your head, but perhaps I'm just abnormally content with my life.

It's certainly a real disorder, traceable to a chemical imbalance in your brain. We are, after all, physical creatures, and what goes on in our heads affects our moods. It's just that lots of people think they are clinically depressed, but really aren't.

It's a lot like the South Park episode where the local psychiatrist reads A Tale of Two Cities to all the kids in town, and when they couldn't tell him what a specific word on a specific page was, he diagnoses everyone with ADD and prescribes Ritalin. For every one kid that actually needs it, 10 kids who are just undisciplined end up being incompetently diagnosed and prescribed (and, according to South Park, Ritalin makes you a Phil Collins fan).

Durandal wrote: It's certainly a real disorder, traceable to a chemical imbalance in your brain. We are, after all, physical creatures, and what goes on in our heads affects our moods. It's just that lots of people think they are clinically depressed, but really aren't.

Actually, I would be more inclined to say that a lot of people who ARE depressed don't think they are. Depression in its myriad forms is a largely undiagnosed disease. Partly because of the stereotypes and cultural taboos we have against it.

When people think of depression we're always thinking of stereotypical far-end spectrums of depression that are easily identifiable. But it's much more insidious then that.

I've been severely depressed but i've never been diagnosed for it, don't want to be either.Seem to be fine at the moment anyway.

Sometimes life sucks, sometimes it doesn't. I've never seen any reason to ask a doctor about what seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I've been diagnosed as clinically depressed before. By an intern psychiatrist who was so full of shit that it poured out his ears. He saw a teen walk into his office, thought "depressed, but he'll deny it till Doomsday" and prescribed Zoloft. I never filled that prescription and never went back. The thing that was wrong was Asperger's (or Ausperger's, no one agrees on the spelling) Syndrome, a completely different beast.

Trytostaydead wrote:Actually, I would be more inclined to say that a lot of people who ARE depressed don't think they are. Depression in its myriad forms is a largely undiagnosed disease. Partly because of the stereotypes and cultural taboos we have against it.

I disagree. Clinical depression is something which occurs constantly and repeatedly, and it stops or at least hinders you from going about your everyday activities. This is the case with all psychological disorders.

The key is that it happens all the time, not just whenever something bad happens. Some 16 year-old crying in her room because her boyfriend dumped her is not clinical depression; it's simply to be expected. I've been depressed to the point where I lacked motivation to do anything but stare at the floor, but it's not constant, and it happens very infrequently, so there's no real need to worry about it.

The majority of people don't wake up in the morning with suicidal thoughts or without any motivation at all. Granted, a lot of people who actually have depression are never diagnosed because they don't want to go to the doctor, but a lot of people who think they have depression never go to the doctor, either, probably because they don't want to risk being told that what they feel and when they feel it is perfectly normal.

I'm getting a bit worried by all the people who are depressed.

I'm on Zoloft for my anger managment problems, but that's the only medication I take. Not that I take the pills anyway.

And sometimes, I do get depressed, but there's something that can make me feel better, and it's free. It's called masturbation.

I was depressed when the Bills lost to the Cowboys in the Super Bowl for the second time. Does that count?