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DoctorNine
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
Map of World Happiness:

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Tart of Darkness
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
Unreal persistence in the face of all realistic obstacles sounds more like mania to me.
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RheaPollstry
06/27/09

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I guess this means I should give up on my goal of being a star commenter.
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BookishLookish
06/27/09

@RheaPollstry: I don't understand why you are not.
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SaraRueful
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
That chicken hawk on the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons never seemed depressed.
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intime
06/27/09

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Depression is a fact of modern life because modern life is unhealthy for human beings. Human beings were not meant to sit in a cubicle all day staring at a computer screen! We need to be outside - we need to be active. We need to eat healthy food produced without corn products. The meat we eat now - and our ancestors did evolve eating meat - is being fed corn and does not have Omega-3 fatty acids that we need from grass fed animals. Modern civilization is killing us!

That said, I would never want to go without modern medical science - especially antibiotics, sterile technique, anesthetics and vaccines.

End of speech.
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nirreskeya
06/27/09

@intime: Remember, instant oatmeal gives you cancer. Steel cut or oat groats only.
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katekate is squared
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
When we're depressed, aren't we actively spinning our wheels, generating thoughts that make us depressed? Wouldn't the ability to pick oneself out of a low depression depend more on thinking rationally and quieting those thoughts?

No. Getting out of real, actual depression and not just being bummed out is not about just "thinking rationally."
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krismry
06/27/09

@katekate is squared: Exactly. Thinking rationally has little or no effect in the long run. Quieting thoughts by repression doesn't work either. Depressions are not mental problems, they are variable conditions that may represent signals or clusters of signs that certain functions of the body have gone out of equilibrium. There is not just one kind of 'depression,' and whatever variety is causing the suffering is just as much a physical condition. People who get

this awful advice to bear up, carry on, and think happy thoughts are entitled to our most heartfelt sympathy.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
Well it fits nicely with the pbs show on happiness in which a Dane tells us why the Danish are the happiest people in the word: Low expectations of themselves.

As Ben Sherwood might say: "You can eat an entire jumbo jet; you just need to take lots of little bites."

Or as Kwai Chang would say: "The journey of a thousand smiles begins with a single misstep."
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Mymoustache
06/27/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Dane Cook is the happiest person on earth?
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jackvinyl
06/27/09

@Mymoustache: ignorance (and hackery apparently too) is bliss
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Pinekatz
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
Okay, U of Mich - Everywhere ain't detroit.

I've re-created myself 10 different times, right here in good 'ol North America. I've been successful every time.

Ladies, try that shit in Yemen or Saudi Arabia or India. Just try it on for size. See if the fit and color is right..... and good damn luck to you......

Crybaby scholars. Gawd. I could go for miles on this topic. Idiots. It isn't "depression." Its what we, the people who have CHOICES, call dissatisfaction. Recognize it, embrace the misery, then choose the way out and up.
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miss_msry
06/27/09

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This depresses me.
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hatey
06/27/09

In reply to Is Depression American?
The only goal I ever gave up on was my plan/desire to kill myself. Thank you, forced regimen of therapy and [amazing] pharmaceuticals!
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