Posted by SLS on December 6, 2014, at 6:13:25
In reply to Re: What If We're Wrong About Depression?, posted by baseball55 on December 5, 2014, at 21:10:37
> Stress is not an issue for me and never has been. I deal well with stress, am energized by it and find I rise to the stressful situation and am pleased with myself.
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> But I still have MDD. I do not feel stressed when I am depressed. I feel hopeless and avoid life, including stressful events that might, in fact, make me feel better.
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> Maybe for some people, stress leads to depression. But not for me.
It definitely can, though. This is especially true in adolescence, where chronic anxiety is sometimes considered prodromal to depression. However, a lack of resilience is not necessarily the result of any one extant stressful situation. It can occur as a "learned helplessness" that yields depression in anticipation of inescapable tasks or situations, especially when exposure to the stressor is repeated.There is no ONE depression. Depression has many presentatons, and, perhaps, many psychoneurologial etiologies. I don't doubt that you experience eustress that enhances your ability to perform. I also don't doubt that you have sucessfully resisted becoming passive and avoided surrendering yourself to unwelcome challenges.
I avoid life because I have very little energy to move about and have nothing to say in social situations. I experience anxiety - which is probably amplified by my illness - because I feel so uncomfortable staring into space while being mute and unresponsive to other people. I shut down when I cannot extricate myself from such circumstances. For the moment, the shocks are inescapable. I become very passive. I give up. I have lost resilience.
Resilience is not equivalent to the absence of anxiety. Resilience can diminish in the absence of anxiety.
- 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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