Posted by Alara on October 26, 2002, at 1:38:17
In reply to What people did before antidepressants « WorryGirl, posted by Dr. Bob on October 21, 2002, at 1:08:15
"I'm feeling depressed because I try so often to (kindly and gently ) reach out to others (when I have the confidence), and get to know them, but most of them are just not interested."
This is the plight of the sensitive, caring, and empathic person who finds him/her self thrown into a sometimes harsh and uncaring world. I can really, really relate to this!
Yes, I do think that people, on the whole, have become
ruder, harder and more self-absorbed. There was a report last night on TV about some Australian social scientists who are researching this decline in social grace. The scientists blamed the phenomenon on a decline in parenting standards.You are right about life being more complicated too. Our roles have changed. Women no longer feel adequate as wives, friends and mothers. They must also have a `career' and develop that tough, competetive, ruthless edge. Men no longer feel adequate as the husbands, fathers and breadwinners of this world. They need to treat women as equals in business and life and yet are still expected to treat them with extra sensitivity. Meanwhile society still forbids men to cry.
Meanwhile, we have to worry about the fall of the dot coms, the collapse of consumerism, terrorism and new wars...
No wonder so many people take antidepressants!
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