Comment preview: One thing that always bugs me when depression gets mentioned is the people that come in and start clamoring about how their depression is more serious and/or legitimate than some other guys depression. I've even seen it devolve into outright one-upmanship ....

Comment preview: That being sad doesn't make you automatically depressed. Oh, your girlfriend broke up with you? That really sucks and I'm sorry, but you're not depressed. You're just sad. Depression is completely different, lasts much longer, and drains you of all energy. ....

Comment preview: I agree that there are highly effective treatments for depression. Many people who are depressed do not realize this. But learning to use techniques like CBT also involve trained professionals. At least in my experience, without some kind of external input ....

Comment preview: I am absolutely not trying to attack you or make you feel bad, but I just wanted to take the opportunity to share this with someone who may not know. I don't know if the the person you're responding to suffered from clinical depression or not but for peopl ....

Comment preview: "I can't be with someone that takes anti-depressants, you are a fake. I hate people who are artificially happy." Little did he know, the relationship was what made me go on anti-depressants. Most emotionally abusive relationship I've ever been in. EDIT: ....

Comment preview: **The past 10 years:** I hated my major, hated my school, hated my life, **fell into depression** and failed out. I reapplied, got back in, changed my major, still hated it, still hated the school, **fell into depression**, failed out again. Parents tried ....

Comment preview: I feel differently. Depression can lead to suicide. The issue that I have with it is that we often treat depression as a moral disease instead of a medical condition. When it's pointed out that he committed suicide not because of depression, but because ....

Comment preview: "Depressive realism" has no clinical basis. In fact the most effective approach to treating depression in high-functioning patients is cognitive behavioral therapy - this involves **identifying and counteracting negative, flawed beliefs** that contribute t ....

Comment preview: This is just a better sub for depression posts, because you're actually almost guaranteed to have some replies. /r/depression is great, but unfortunately, it's extremely common for a post to be completely ignored and buried in that sub. /r/depression is fu ....

Comment preview: Depressive realism, while interesting as a concept, has been shown to be an extremely limited phenomenon if it even truly exists. The only strong evidence for the theory has been in studies of attention among the participants, and even then only in people ....

Comment preview: One reason to suspect that depression is an adaptation, not a malfunction, comes from research into a molecule in the brain known as the 5HT1A receptor. The 5HT1A receptor binds to serotonin, another brain molecule that is highly implicated in depression a ....

Comment preview: I'm a recreational therapist with some experience with depressed clients, and I have to say, I don't think anything here is likely to be helpful. This advice is helpful to people who lack motivation and are feeling down in the dumps about it. That is not ....

Comment preview: > This isn't how depression works. That's how sadness works. Depression is a very real illness. People who suffer from depression can't escape depression by changing their setting. Oftentimes, they are literally incapable of experiencing pleasure. Sever ....

Comment preview: Depression is an incredibly vicious cycle. You're depressed. You're depressed about being depressed. You want to be happy. Nothing makes you happy. You're depressed because nothing makes you happy. You want to fix it. You're depressed because you can't fix ....

Comment preview: I'm gonna hijack this top comment and try and elaborate on OPs post. I think posts like OPs are part of the problem, even though they're not directly antagonizing depressed people. I think that a huge part of society's bad treatment towards the mentally il ....

Comment preview: Depression isn't really a feeling of sadness. It is a feeling of hopelessness. It's a feeling of not wanting to get out of bed each day because you feel that it just doesn't matter. During a depressive period, you don't pay your bills even though you have ....

Comment preview: Even having read the article I'm finding it hard to feel positive about it. I'd rather not have depression. > Mental disorders should generally be rare why isn t depression? This is strange to me considering how many disorders could be termed as rathe ....

Comment preview: You are not alone on [DkS helping with depression] (http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/1v5lzs/how_dark_souls_helped_me_move_past_depression/ ). While I'm happy for your recovery, Depression is a real medical condition, and be careful for it *might* ....

Comment preview: In the threads I've come across where depression is brought up there is indeed a language problem - active verbs such as "can't" are valid as describing the *thoughts* of some depressed people (e.g. "I feel I can't leave the house today"), but when used to ....

Comment preview: >agree with you. Whenever the topic of depression comes up everybody gets into a circlejerk of how fucking horrific depression is and then that one guy says "as somebody diagnosed with clinical depression i can say that depression is the number one wors ....

Comment preview: Being depressed and having depression are not the same thing, and I wish people would realize this. Everyone gets depressed now and again, it's a normal and healthy part of life. Shit happens, and we feel bad, and get over it. Having depression is not like ....

Comment preview: >Give it a look. Now I'm obviously no expert, but from my experience, people who are depressed don't make a song and dance abut how they are depressed. It may be that this person is depressed and just wants to vent. But surely there are better ways righ ....

Comment preview: As someone with lifelong depression I have to say that it's a mental illness, which means that it's a delusion. People think depression makes you sad, but that's only one symptom. Depression is similar to schizophrenia in that it involves a warped percepti ....

Comment preview: There are many reasons. The first and likely most prominent reason is (fortunately) one of perception. Because people are disconnected from other users online, they are more comfortable expressing negative ideas and often in stronger terms than what they ....

Comment preview: Depression is not just being sad. Seriously, you all need to fucking stop that shit. Depression is having an imbalance of one or more of the monoamines. When you are at a perfectly happy time in your life, depression can still strike. It will drag you down ....