Posted by capricorn on April 16, 2006, at 14:23:52
In reply to Re: HELP: How often how deeply do you get depress, posted by Don_Bristol on April 12, 2006, at 19:05:52
Where is the demarcation line between 'major' and 'minor' depression? Sure one can define it via the criteria as defined by the DSM or ICD
but then deciding who fits into those observation based constructs is the task of psychiatrists
who are as prone to subjectivity as the the rest
of us mere mortals.That is not to say that there is not a quantative distinction between the two but that the distinction may not always be as clearly definable as the DSM etc indicates.
Also there is the fact that we as individuals may subjectively give differing interpretations
of objectively equal levels of those symptoms that
are lumped together and called depression.It is one of those things that i have against those depression rating scales that rely on
questions to which one is offered a choice
such as Just a little,Somewhat,Moderately,Quite a lot,Very much.
I have experienced what is clinically defined as 'major depression' .My worst episode being that which first lead to my being hospitalised at the age of 18.
I still gets bouts of depression that are endogenous but in the main suffer from what would
clinically be described as non-endogenous
event/stress related depression. It is a depression marked by dysphoria and too much emotion of a negative kind in a way that so called clinical depression isn't.The endogenous
depression being much more vegetative.With one i can't be bothered and don't what to do much or say much with the other ie non endogenous i am full of despair etc that is vehemently and angrily expressed.
The stress/event related depression is very accute and intense much more so than the endogenous depression but lasts for a couple of hours to a day or so at a time .
I can feel empty and emotionally dead then something happens and i'm plunged into a intense state of despair/depression and dysphoria with the emotions so intense that it feels not only that one could touch them but be badly burnt by the touching of them only for that intensity
to dissipate as rapidly as it appeared.By it's very lability it does not qualify as 'major depression' and yet those who think such
depression is a beast of a lesser kind ie not 'major' in it's own way are, to put it bluntly,shallow minded fools drowning in the sands
of their own barren intellectual wasteland.'Major depression' as clinically defined is a phrase of palpably limited worth .
poster:capricorn
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