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Ok so I can’t talk about myself personally because I don’t suffer…BUT my best friend in the whole wide world suffers and has for years. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 6, which, from the little I know about if from college classes, is way too young. She was hyper and depressed and had trouble sleeping and felt like a failure. She always had negative thoughts about herself. She was afraid to eat food that might make her fat. She pushed herself so hard in college that she never slept. She could not concentrate. Ok so you get the picture. Then she found out in her 3rd year in college that all this time she was never really bipolar in the first place but she had ADHD. All this time she was taking meds. for something she never had while not taking meds for something she did have. I know that even Doctors make mistakes but I wish there was a way to keep this from ever happening again to anyone.

Depression is caused by society and advertising! You have hollywood on one end showing your how awesome life can be if your a movie star or live in a fantasy world. You have retailers telling you to be special and unique while selling the same clothes you wear to millions of others around the globe ~snickers~.

We are told to “do as we say, not as we do” our government being the biggest hypocrite there is. We are taught by our nations religion to “be kind to our enemies and help those who hate us.” yet we blow everyone away.

There isn’t anything wrong with you are anyone else who has depression. It is your mind inability to rationalize all the hypocricy and bull crap that goes on in our world. When one’s mind looks out and sees its insignificance in the sea of time and space it can cause a schizm, after all you can’t full the subconscious mind most the time.

If the issue is a hardware issue then you definately need some kind of uptakes, but the vast majority of depression is software issues in the mind and can be solved by finding a viable way to rationalize their existance ~smiles~.

Good luck

Y’know what’s weird, I ghad the same experience. Only it was with ADHD. I’m surprised how many people have the symptoms for ADHD on this site.

But a lot of things cause the lack of concentration.

I think I’m with you, I’d get rid of the stigma. I’d make it so that it was perfectly normal and healthy to see a counselor — like going to the physician.

OccultPizz wrote:
Depression is caused by society and advertising!
If the issue is a hardware issue then you definately need some kind of uptakes, but the vast majority of depression is software issues in the mind and can be solved by finding a viable way to rationalize their existance ~smiles~.

Good luck

I agree with parts of your post. I do believe a lot of depression is situational and psychiatrists are far too quick to take out their magic prescription pad and make the booboo go away.

I’m not saying that there’s not depression that is clinical or genetic or “a hardware problem,” by aaannny means, however I think if we chose to look at the ROOT of our sadness, our fatigue, our life circumstances, and especially our diet , etc, etc some of our symptoms may balance themselves out.

Also, on a separate note, there are A LOT of teenagers and pre-teens who post on this site (not that there’s anything wrong with that, and I am glad they’re around!!) and that stage of life usually comes complete with melodrama, infinite sadness, hurt feelings, frustration, gloom, etc, etc–some for valid reasons and others not so valid. Just a point. Please, no one take offense… I just speak out of personal experience.

Aye, Kten nice follow up ~smiles~

OccultPizz wrote:
Aye, Kten nice follow up ~smiles~

Why thank you muchly.

xo kristen

Don’t you just love it when somebody walks up to a depressed person and ’snaps’ their fingers in front of their face saying, ” At the count of three you will be wide awake and refreshed.” ” Snap out of it. ” ” Just be happy.”

Unicity wrote:
Don’t you just love it when somebody walks up to a depressed person and ’snaps’ their fingers in front of their face saying, ” At the count of three you will be wide awake and refreshed.” ” Snap out of it. ” ” Just be happy.”

Yeah, its similar to “snap out of it. Just pretend that tumor doesn’t exist! Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Cancer is all in your mind.”

Well… maybe it is??

Anonymous wrote:
Well… maybe it is??

tell that to my grandmother and mother, a$$hole…o, wait, you cant…they’re both dead

It’s weird though how some people just “miraculously” heal from cancer and the doctors just cant explain it.

Ok. I see you don’t want to believe your mind has any power over your body. Suit yourself!
Oh! by the way, you have very bad manners.

My mother and a close friend of mine suffer from bipolar disorder…

I think I do too…

You are not alone…