Posted by bulldog2 on October 3, 2010, at 12:18:29
In reply to Re: Could Age of The Med Taker For Depression Effect?, posted by linkadge on October 2, 2010, at 20:49:43
> >A lot of older people take ads because being >older can be depressing. Feeling chronic pain >and not being able to do the things you used to >is hard. Also not like I can go back to college >for a new career. So there is actually more of a >need for a good ad. A lot of older people self >medicate on pain meds.
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> Yeah, but younger people have a lot more stressors which older people don't have. Older people don't need to worry about nervous breakdowns before major exam periods, or taking care of screaming kids & aging parents, or (hopefully) finding employement etc. etc.
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> Every stage of life (so long as you're not in chronic physical pain, or immobile etc.) has its roses and thorns.
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> When I turned 20, I got severely depressed over the fact that I wasn't a teen anymore, so a "grass is greener" over there attitute does not depend on ones age.
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> Linkadge
>Yes but the one thing I have that you don't is the experience of being able to evaluate each life stage. Once your old you are closer to the end and that cannot be turned back. I'd rather be your age and deal with stressors. Wait to you feel the chronic pain of a failing body. That doesn't get better.
I'm not saying your issues are not horrendous however there is something very wierd about getting older that is hard to describe.
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