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Re: History of depression - um? » sigismund

Posted by ed_uk2010 on May 16, 2010, at 2:47:10

In reply to Re: History of depression - um?, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2010, at 20:15:16

>Do people have nervous breakdowns these days?

It used to be a very popular term among the general public in Britain. I've not heard it as much recently.

I think it referred to anything which was bad enough to need a few months off work, plus or minus a hospital stay. Could be depression but also severe anxiety.

It's not a scientific term but it's no worse than most of the popular psych terminology. The worst is probably 'dysphoria', which can refer to pretty much any unpleasant emotion. Talk about vague. If someone on p-babble asks 'What should I take for dysphoria?', I really have no idea what they are talking about. Now if they said they were feeling anxious, distressed, jealous, angry, sad, agitated, bored, tired, weak, restless or frightened I would have more idea what they were talking about.

 

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