Posted by FredPotter on February 9, 2003, at 14:20:38
I recently read on this board and in the book "Breaking the Patterns of Depression" by Michael Yapko (very good by the way), that the prevalence of clinical depression is ten times greater in people born since 1945. If we define clinical depression as depression bad enough to go to your Dr about, then it could be explained by a greater willingness to go to your Dr about it, but apparently this sort of thing has been corrected for in the study that reported it.
When I look back over the years, my bad spells always coincided with living alone or being on the verge of leaving a communal living arrangement. My stable, happy times were before my wife took the kids and left, when living with a family, flatting with mates, even being in a residential rehab clinic.
So while drugs and therapy like CBT can be partially effective, they are basically patch-up jobs. The real problem is globalisation. Most people adapt well to it. Others like me never get over the rift it causes and become ill - left behind in this latest of human evolutionary leaps.
What do people think?
Fred
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