03-10-2015, 03:35 AM
There is a broad range that we can have from feeling blue to a low mood, to full blown depression.
For it to be a full blown depression there needs to be evidence of symptoms over a sustained period (usually a few weeks). What I usually say to patients (particularly men, who are first presentation with an acute crisis such as suicide attempt). Many people don't realise they are depressed, they think they are just sad, or their life is shit etc.
What I say to patients is, you know what depression is now, you know how to treat it. It is not some magical mystical thing, it is an illness just like any other. What I use as a comparison, is pnueumonia. If you have the flu and you need antibiotics and you don't get them, your flu can descend into pneumonia and that can be fatal. It's the same way with depression, if you have an episode of depression and it starts to linger, you need to get to your doctor and get some antidepressents to begin to treat the depression before it descends into a full blown illness including suicidal ideation.
It's a terrible thing depression. What I also think is evil, is when someone deliberately tries to sabotage another individual or their life and cause them to end up in that space, or wish that upon them. I probably don't make sense as usual.
For it to be a full blown depression there needs to be evidence of symptoms over a sustained period (usually a few weeks). What I usually say to patients (particularly men, who are first presentation with an acute crisis such as suicide attempt). Many people don't realise they are depressed, they think they are just sad, or their life is shit etc.
What I say to patients is, you know what depression is now, you know how to treat it. It is not some magical mystical thing, it is an illness just like any other. What I use as a comparison, is pnueumonia. If you have the flu and you need antibiotics and you don't get them, your flu can descend into pneumonia and that can be fatal. It's the same way with depression, if you have an episode of depression and it starts to linger, you need to get to your doctor and get some antidepressents to begin to treat the depression before it descends into a full blown illness including suicidal ideation.
It's a terrible thing depression. What I also think is evil, is when someone deliberately tries to sabotage another individual or their life and cause them to end up in that space, or wish that upon them. I probably don't make sense as usual.