Posted by SLS on July 21, 2006, at 6:58:40
In reply to Thoughts on Depression and other diagnoses..., posted by stargazer on July 21, 2006, at 0:30:53
Depression is often a disorder of focus and concentration rather than one of absolute cognitive inability. Intense interest and motivation - like trying to save one's own life - often provides transient and limited increases in these areas of function. The results of these brief and narrow cognitive bursts can deceive others into concluding that this level of function is global. People with the illness, such as yourself, are just as capable of being fooled as those without the illness. Know, however, that everyone has their threshold of impairment. For the two months prior to last week, I would have been unable to have composed a post such as this. I was cognitively too slowed and anergic among other things.
- Scott
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