Depression
By: Mike • Essay • 573 Words • January 29, 2010 • 1,095 Views
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Depression is hard to describe. The Webster’s Dictionary says Depression is: “a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies”. I guess that would be a good way to put it. Depression isn’t always noticeable, some times even by the victims of it. When depressed some one might not even know they are depressed. Allot of the people know there depressed. How can one know? Well, everyone is different, if one feels tired all the time, doesn’t care anymore, and other ticks are clues, but you just know. It’s not a two or three day thing either. Depression can last weeks, months, even years.
Pills are not always an easy fix, the miracle drug, or any easy way out. Most of the drugs may get rid of depression, but add to the anger. Pills are nothing more that placeboes in my mind. Sure they may help some people, but I haven’t seen it first hand. Doctors also like to say your depressed when your not. Many times I have gone to the doctor and they say something like, “You’re not sick, you’re just depressed”. Then they start to ask if I tried to kill myself and other idiotic concepts. That’s why I don’t go to the doctor. There excuses for some things they don’t understand are depression.
Although lots of people are having pills shoved down there throat they don’t need. Many people are in need of some mental help. People who are depressed don’t like to talk about it. And it will typically lingerer on for a long time. One could “recover” only to slip back into the darkness a year or so later. Some people get to used to it they start to actually like being depressed. Depression can destroy your life though, but allot of depression is because life was ruined. When depressed all most everything can trigger a break down of some sort. Wither it is out of anger of sorrow, the victim