Posted by SLS on April 8, 2011, at 5:22:57
In reply to Re: Condescension, posted by emmanuel98 on April 7, 2011, at 19:35:26
> I have a friend who recently started having major depression. All her friends and family told her, go to the gym, get out, get busy, snap out of it.
Yes, but they forgot to suggest that she pull herself up by her bootstraps. Perhaps that would work.
I thought that the understanding of these illnesses by the public was greater 20 years ago than it is now. I don't know why.
> I listen to her and try to empathize, because I have been there many times.
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> Still, after several weeks, I experienced her depression as a kind of abandonment.To your friend, it probably feels like the world - and perhaps God - has abandoned her.
> She was so caught up in the experience that she barely thought or asked about me.
There are many subtypes of depression, and it is experienced differently by everyone. It would be a mistake to compare your depression to your friend's. In addition, there might be important characterological differences between you and your friend that allow you to cope better with the illness.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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