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People seem to treat depression as a disease or illness to be medicated away asap. Depression is your body's way to get you to stop interacting with the others and make some serious changes in your life to fix the damn problem. Depression is part of all socities and many mammal species. Depressed people are found to be more rational than the people who feel successful. We've become a society obsessed with constant happiness. Well you know what? Sometimes life sucks and your brain is going to continually kick you while you are down until you get up and fix your problem.

I guess its good for big pharma sales babes. Doctors don't even know why these drugs work. "Diagnose depression??" It's like diagnosing a air conditioner that comes on when it gets hot inside. The air conditioner isn't the problem to be removed. Depression is part of what it means to be human and enlightened people pull out the power tools and make the appropriate changes to re evaluate what we should be doing now.

parent maeon3 14 years ago

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