Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » phidippus

Posted by SLS on August 31, 2012, at 0:28:18

In reply to Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS, posted by phidippus on August 30, 2012, at 20:56:56

> People with depression still have the faculty of judgement. When I was psychotically depressed, I still made the right choices in taking care of myself.
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> Because depressed people can demonstrate good judgement, most people assume they can function normally. Most people don't understand just how severe depression can get and they certainly don't understand the biological aspect of depression and how it effects the functioning of the brain. I think it says something though that people have made wonderful work in the worst states of depression: the poetry of Sylvia Plath or the writings of Ernest Hemingway come to mind.
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> "If a paraplegic can learn to run with prosthetic legs, why can't you get out of bed, take a shower and get dressed?"
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> How do you answer that? I could say, physiologically, there's nothing wrong with the depressed person, they can get up. The only problem is that physiology is controlled by a brain that has lost something. The axons in their myelinated sheaths aren't firing right, or maybe whole brain structures have been comprimised. We're not sure. Why don't you get out of bed? Because my mind hurts.
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> Is depression an altered state of consciosness? Maybe, but I can't compare it to drunkness or any other kind of intoxication, because judgement is mostly retained.
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> Eric

I'm glad that your judgment is mostly retained. Is it possible that you are not the archetype for all cases of depression?
Brain function is a type of physiology last I checked, and is the critical issue with depressive disorders.

- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

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