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Leopolds Ghost

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3. I didn't mean to suggest that clinical depression does not exist. I myself have been depressed

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 10:17 PM

Dec 2012

But the problem is that people who are not clinically depressed are being diagnosed as being clinically depressed (and given mood-dampening drugs) on the basis that they are depressed for legitimate, situational reasons such as joblessness, poverty, death in the family, etc.

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Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes [View all] Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 OP

Although clinical depression is often associated with a stressful event, hedgehog Dec 2012 #1

I didn't mean to suggest that clinical depression does not exist. I myself have been depressed Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #3

+1 XemaSab Dec 2012 #5

Uh, because the objective is to make people "functional" without addressing their underlying problem Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #8

How do you address the underlying problem, which is often neurological... BeHereNow Dec 2012 #15

I certainly did not mean to sound offensive to you, or people who feel that is a vital choice Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #16

i hope you don't ACTUALLY disagree with your mother about this. mopinko Dec 2012 #20

Um, you don't get to tell other people's families how to agree or disagree. Leopolds Ghost Jan 2013 #21

I am currently grieving the loss of my husband Big Blue Marble Dec 2012 #12

Even "normal" depression, of the common garden variety, dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #7

Any internist will prescribe anti-depressants to a patient that really wants it Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #9

it's my impression that anti-depressants aren't what hedgehog Dec 2012 #19

A month away and an ounce of good weed would have an even better affect. DCKit Dec 2012 #2

DUPLICATE THREAD TexasBushwhacker Dec 2012 #4

Thanks for your concern Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #6

I would've missed it. tblue Dec 2012 #13

Well of course they did. Scuba Dec 2012 #10

Brave New World tama Dec 2012 #11

Wellbutrin is extremely effective in short term use. Been there- done that. BeHereNow Dec 2012 #14

I did not mean to offend, I just feel like it is all about the underlying profit motive for the Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #17

Fourteen years ago, I used Wellbutrin to quit smoking. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #18