Posted by pullmarine on November 7, 2000, at 21:01:26
In reply to Re: Keep talking, we're all ears!!!!, posted by Angela5 on November 6, 2000, at 16:14:24
> Thanks, everyone, for all of your support. It is definitely nice to learn that I'm not completely alone...
TOGETHER WE STAND!!!!!>
> Does anyone have that annoying problem of family members (or whomever) comparing them to "their" depression, or that of someone else they know? Not to minimize anyone else's experiences - I mean, many are much worse - but often the people who do this have a completely closed mind. Depression normally comes with a special kind of sensitivity and attunement (is that a word?) to others; is this missing in these people who have experienced it? Actually, when I think about it, it is mostly men in my life - former significant other, my stepfather, etc. - that do this. I think in them it is just one more manifestation of our cultural "training" gone awry.
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Research on support groups have indicated that most men are not very apt at providing psycho-emoytional support.
> To answer questions raised by some of you, I do have a pdoc and do take meds. However, as many of you are all-to-familiar, I am in the throes of that wonderful, trial-and-error phenomenon that seems necessary to psychiatric treatment. I keep thinking that I just have to be patient a little while longer, but what if I run out of meds to even try??
>Depression, whether treated with meds or not, is temporary. Also, there are many non-chemical ways of overcomming depression.
John
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