Salvador Dali stole my Paxil and now I glow in the dark...

Mar 19, 2007 03:57

[What I Feel|
contemplative ]
[What I Hear| Coldplay "Square One" ]
[What I Smell| BPAL Beaver Moon LE ]

I've been throwing around a rant about depression in the back of my mind. I think I gave a friend the wrong impression about how I feel about depression by what I emailed her. Truth be told, if I'd said what I had wanted to say in the first place, I would have been viewed as being brusque and unfeeling. Long story short, my honest belief is that most (note the limitor) depression can be avoided entirely--because it's a CHOICE, just like many others. You can often choose NOT to fall into depression, if you MAKE a choice at all. If you make no choice, the tsunami will overwhelm you. If you fear it, it will take hold of you. If you worry about it, you will fall in. Your point of view makes a difference.

Unpopular ideas, I know. I mean no offence to any one of you who suffers under depression, because learning where the trigger points are and knowing how to resist them takes time to learn. And you won't hear the answers from the medical community, because they're funded by drug companies who want to medicate you. I heard one "professional" on the radio just last week saying EVERYONE should be on medication. Gee, now wouldn't THAT make life easier for a government who wants docile sheep?

EDITED to remove the part that was not being read because of people reacting to the depression comments. The above part on Depression is exactly as I first wrote it, but it segued into what I really wanted to talk about--Loss of Faith. Because that was the most important thing and I did not want that lost in the firestorm of comments, I moved the Loss of Faith portion--exactly as I first wrote it, too--to a post on its own. But the two issues WERE linked, because depression and loss of faith usually follow one another.

SECOND EDIT: OMG, how does one STOP this sort of irrationality? I know!! BAN her!!

Nechtan

depression, surreal, dramallama

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