Depression... in a world without meds
So this blog's been inactive for ages. It needed a wee sojourn.
But I have a thought provoking discussion and no, it's not about the Da Vinci Code.
What is the answer to depression? Really. Should people suffering depression really be expected to go through cycles and cycles of meds in search of a solution? Do you think that there is a non-meds solution?
So there it is, what do you think?
posted by jessp @ 9:03 PM
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Speaking as someone who lives with and loves a man with stress-related clinical depression - the meds are sometimes the only thing that make life bearable.
They provide a buffer when he's going through some stress, and they allow him to do more on a daily basis than he would otherwise be able to.
The problem with achieving a combined treatment is that he's been to several different therapists in the past, and its difficult to motivate him enough to leave the house to try again.
If something goes wrong, things spiral downwards, and he ends up sleeping eighteen hours a day and taking numerous long showers (the shower is one of his 'safe places').
I think that one of the most helpful things any society can do for the depressed is severely limit the contact they have to have with centrelink in order to get the money to live on. In my experience, centrelink does a lot of harm and little good for people who are depressed.
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