Posted by emmanuel98 on March 16, 2010, at 23:28:30
In reply to happiness...., posted by obsidian on March 16, 2010, at 22:29:58
I have been severely depressed and suicidal and I don't think my attitude had anything to do with it. After all, why would I "want to" feel this way, adopt such an attitude? I don't think therapy helped either, except that, in meeting with my p-doc every week, I was forced more and more to accept that the problem wasn't my attitude. Medications helped, finally.
I think when someone is depressed, their friends and family feel abandoned by them. The depressed person is suddenly not fun, not pleasant to be around. The tendency of friends and family is to blame the depressed person for having a bad "attitide", for choosing to feel bad, for refusing to do things (like exercise) that would make them feel better. But, as my p-doc always said when I told him this -- why would anyone want to "make themselves" feel this way?
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