Re:Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes
by denton-scratch on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:23AM
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I should have added a smiley or something; what I was trying to imply was that being diagnosed and treated for depression made things worse for me, and that my rejection of that diagnosis in itself improved my mood.
Let me put it another way: if you have some cause to be fed-up, and then some shrink diagnoses you with depression, you now have two reasons to be fed-up. Like as not, your original cause of fed-upness could be remedied; but depression is uncurable, all they can do is treat the symptoms.
And reportedly, the treatment can be worse than the disease:
I don't mean to suggest that depression doesn't exist. But it's wildly over-diagnosed; I suspect that depression is often diagnosed because it's massively cheaper to write a scrip for a bottle of some shifty "mood-regulator" than to look closely into their life circumstances, history of trauma, relationships with others etc.
Let me put it another way: if you have some cause to be fed-up, and then some shrink diagnoses you with depression, you now have two reasons to be fed-up. Like as not, your original cause of fed-upness could be remedied; but depression is uncurable, all they can do is treat the symptoms.
And reportedly, the treatment can be worse than the disease:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressants_and_suicide_ri...
I don't mean to suggest that depression doesn't exist. But it's wildly over-diagnosed; I suspect that depression is often diagnosed because it's massively cheaper to write a scrip for a bottle of some shifty "mood-regulator" than to look closely into their life circumstances, history of trauma, relationships with others etc.