Types Of Depression
Or maybe it should be AMOTQ. Anyway. How you decide if it's time to try
meds and/or therapy?
One of the prime symptoms of depression is hopelessness ("there's no use,
nothing's going to help anyway"). Another is inertia, being unable to take any
initiative.
So the depressed person may not be in the best position to make that decision.
If your intimates and close friends - perhaps with a leading question or two -
suggest that it might be a good idea, or say that you've been sounding
depressed... listen.
According to the diagonostic manual, there are at least 4 types of
depression and 4 levels of those types. I don't see Sagitaria as the
person so deep in depression that she has lost all desire to even get
up out of bed to do the little things like shower and eat. Those are
the depressives who can't make the decision for themselves.
Most depressives, myself included, are aware of a problem; we just
don't have the wherewithall to do anything about it. And if and when
that desire hits, a person ,IMHO, ought to jump right into doing
whatever therapy they can get. Sometimes that outside influence may
knock the desire right out of us. Better to let a therapist say "what
the heck are you here for, you don't have a problem" than to hear it
from unknowledgable friends. At least that we have a professional
basis for WHATEVER we decide to do.
Mind you, this is based on my expirence. Not everyone suffers from
mental illness in quite the same way.
seeing that you are a saggie I would say when you cannot tell the truth for
your own bullshit.
being a saggie my self i know i have a problem when i cant find the silver
lining in any of the clouds i encounter.
this usually follows the "i stop being able to see the truth and start to let
folks keep the rose colored glasses on" phase of depression.
if it gets to the "whats the point of it all anyway?" phase i know it is
time to talk to someone.
cause the next phase is the manic horse boy builds things to destroy
civilization and tests them out on random people phase.... (never a good
thing).
anon to "im just going to kill them all and finally have peace phase."