Posted by Questionmark on July 11, 2010, at 4:35:24
In reply to Re: What's up for 10 years from now?, posted by SLS on July 10, 2010, at 4:56:56
I absolutely agree with this post.
Brilliantly put.> Agreed. My guess is that it is not an either-or scenario for most cases of depression. Both nature and nurture (or lack of it) contribute to its induction. I see the causations of depression to lie along a continuum ranging from being predominantly genetic to predominantly psychological. One of the problems with the English language is that it uses the same one word - "depression" - to describe multiple phenomena. This leads to a great deal of confusion and perhaps a lack of empathy. Many mentally healthy people who experience occasional situational depressions often generalize their experience to everyone else. They just don't know any better. Even now, 20 years after the "Decade Of The Brain", there is still a need for educating the general public as to the phenomenology of mental illness. It is sad.
>
>
> - Scott
poster:Questionmark
thread:953351
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20100709/msgs/954074.html