How does one know if they are clinically depressed when they live is such a depressing world?
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Only a professional psychologist/psychiatrist is trained to tell someone if they are "clinically depressed". However, a simply scan of the definition shows how one can attempt a simple self-examination:
"(also known as unipolar or major depression) a state of depression so severe as to require clinical intervention by a health care professional. It has several treatment options, including psychotherapy, antidepressant medication, and electroconvulsive therapy. When five or more symptoms listed on a standard depression quiz are present for at least two weeks, but tend to continue for four to six months, the mood disorder is considered clinical / major depression."
Basically, if you are having trouble coping and adjusting to a world you view as depressing, than you would need professional help and may indeed have clinical depression. Regardless of the world around you, if you function normally and are well adjusted, than you are fine.
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if you choose to be, you are.
from that question im sure you are clinically depressed.
Try to travel. You'll see things that will answer this question for you. Make sure not to just travel in the same area, but actually get out there and go thousands of miles.
Jerk off all the time baby. Then it'll always be a good time.
Please go talk to your doctor...no one needs to feel depressed...get help.
They don't. Someone else does. Depression impairs the way an individual views things, including his or herself.
yes it is a depressing world ,but even though you see terrible things happening on the news or in your neighbor hood ,you fell sorry about it but it wears off maybe in a day or two but when you are suffering from depression it doesn't stop unless you get treatment
Because one is depression over world condition and the other may totally debilitate you so that you are unable to function as a normal individual.
Well ,I know you have the power to check out your options,so,alls you got to do is meditate and If you don't know how then your local library should be able to asist you,k.And by the way your world is what you make it ,babe. Many to choose from ,many to visit who knows we may run in to each other in one of those there worlds we visit?.
the term doesn't really matter... if you're depressed you're depressed. for instance, i dont see the world as a depressing place, a try to look at the bright side of things. so maybe you should stop being a pessimist and ask yourself what you're so sad about and try to fix it. because living with depression sux, hope you can turn things around.
Just ask yourself one question: "Am I a little bltch?" If the answer is "no," then counter-intuitively, you may be clinically depressed. If the answer is "yes," then you are not depressed, you are just a little bltch.
A depressing world? I don't know which world you're living in, but mine is fabulous! I wake up every morning...so I get another chance to be with loved ones, to accept and defeat new challenges, to meet new people, etc.
If you don't get that out of life, then you're depressed...and the clinical definition is therefore met.
That is the best question I have ever heard IN MY LIFE! Babies get raped and killed, headless corpses found by the highway, mothers kill their own, fathers rape their own, innocents get robbed, raped and killed. Good people get killed for nothing. Fires destroy a lifetime of saving. My student got killed by a runaway TIRE. People have actually cut babies out of the dead momma. Men rape boys from behind, even babies. A van of worshippers gets hit head on and all are dead. People trust people and then get everything stolen... I need a drink. J.K. In all the horror and misery of life - there are glipses of hope and joy and faith. That is all we have. How the hell can we smile and laugh in a world where babies heads are chopped off and boys are raped from behind while they are screaming? Are WE sick for finding a way to be happy in this world or what? Are the happy ones simply oblivious, sick or living in their own world?They say the depressed are the sick ones, but look at the world are the happy ones (the oblivious ones) sick for ignoring the rest of the world? Who is sick, really?
I know the difference between somone smiling and meaning it, and somone hiding behind the smile.
First step, stop watching and reading the news. It's full of bad stuff from around the world. But bad and depressing news is good news for newspapers and tv and can really bring you down if you spend a lot of time looking at that stuff. I've traveled all around the world and I've seen more happy people and events than sad ones. Life is what you make it. The world isn't depressed, just your world.
With that said, if I haven't convinced you to see things differently, talk to a doctor. They might have some recommendations or treatment depending on your condition.
Everything on the planet can't be fantasy land. Wars have been raging for centuries and even millenniums, genocide, serial killers, alter boys touched inappropriately, the Bush Administration, all bad things but we can't go on gloating about these issues. If you find a cause that brings you down then take it on. Write your Congressman and let them know you need these issues fixed so that you can happily go back to chasing girls.
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