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Makes me laugh, I have known people being put on anti depressants for no reason, because they may of had a break up or a bit of a money worry, depression is a black hole not just life being a lil cruel at times.
Doctors are taking away emotions, you are meant to feel grief and sadness, it doesn’t mean you are depressed, peoples ability to cope with everyday life seems to be getting less and less as doctors go for the easy option, anti depressants are cheaper than counseling. It’s a shame really.

I suffered with servere depression, I was hospitalised 3 times, had a CPN to my home weekly and weekly visits to the quacks, when I became stronger I had counseling but I was stuck on high doses of medication for 3 years, the medication gave me panic attacks, sweats, and I had a supressed appetite and I am a true believer, if you eat well, you don’t feel so manic. All I can say is I wish GP would try to listen a little more and not over medicate people, there are other options.

DepressionIntroduction

Depression is a serious illness. Health professionals use the terms ‘depression’, ‘depressive illness’ or ‘clinical depression’ to refer to something very different from the common experience of feeling miserable, or fed up, for a short period of time.

The facts

If you are depressed, you may have feelings of extreme sadness that can last for a long time. These feelings are severe enough to interfere with your daily life, and usually last for weeks, or months, rather than days.

Depression is quite a common condition, and about 15% of people will have a bout of severe depression at some point in their lives. However, the exact number of people with depression is hard to estimate because many people do not get help, or are not formally diagnosed with the condition.

Most of the 5,000 suicides committed each year in the UK are linked to depression. On average, 15% of people with recurrent depression (repeated attacks) have an increased risk of suicide.

Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression as men, although men are far more likely to commit suicide. This may be because men are more reluctant to seek help for depression.

Depression can affect people of any age, including children. Studies have shown that 2% of teenagers in the UK, are affected by depression.

People with a family history of depression are more likely to experience depression themselves. Depression affects people in many different ways and can cause a wide variety of physical, psychological (mental) and social symptoms.

What is depression?

Doctors describe depression in the following three ways:

by how serious it is – if it is mild, it is likely to have some impact on your daily life, if it is moderate, it is likely to have significant impact on your daily life and, if it is severe, daily activities may be almost impossible.
by physical symptoms – if you have depression, you will probably have one or two (or maybe more) physical (somatic) symptoms, such as tiredness or a loss of appetite.
by psychotic symptoms – if you have depression, you may also have psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations, or delusions. However, these symptoms do not affect everyone with depression.

People think if you can’t actually see a plaster or a bandage nothing is broken

It is very misunderstood, but I do think some people are just a bit peed off with their lot and the docs hand out pills, hence why its the most treated illnes.

How did we ever survive WW2?! And I wonder if people in Rwanda suffer with lactose intolerance?

The doctors arent helping, but they only get what is it… 3.5 minutes per patient nowadays to listen/diagnose/treat?

But world banking is far more important than health nowadays isnt it.

This is a thouroughly depressing thread…. i feel a visit to the doctors coming on! :shock: