[Ford Man]

Originally Posted by BlackDeuceCoupe

Hrm...

Dare I say it?!?!?

If you look at my last 'fuel log' entry, you'll see that I spent 4 hours, and a half tank of gas, talking a friend out of their 'depression'. I finally convinced him to figure out the source of his anger and go attack it/them, rather than himself.

Turned out, after hours of talking - his family is driving him crazy - sucking him dry financially, emotionally, and physically. "Great", I said, "Go home and kick their blood-sucking parasite arses out! Or, at least be a man and yell at 'em!"

He's doing MUCH better now - took the noose down in his garage and everything...

Depression, so called, is simply anger directed toward yourself. That is, a depressed person is an angry person with no outlet for their anger, so they turn the anger on themselves. If they don't release this anger, sometimes they kill themselves or someone else.

Putting a 'depressed' person on meds usually just makes the situation worse - sometimes they kill LOTS of people!

Evaluate, medicate, evacuate - that's the mantra of the mental health system - and I think the OP is V smart to stay away from the pill pushers. You're better taking up amateur boxing, or something, and getting it out of your system, than trying to suppress inner anger, e.g. depression with meds...

What you say may be true in some cases, but I am also disabled from an accident about 9 years ago that left me with chronic back pain. A life changing experience like the one I had effects a persons mental stability as well as their physical well being. I went from working 40-65 hours a week to not being able to work at all, then on top of that had to fight the government 5 years to get my disability approved. If you don't think chronic pain can change you mentally and physically then try having to take morphine for pain and still hurting 24-7. My pain level on medication is usually between 6 and 8 on a scale of 0-10. There are still days when I have to spend the whole day in bed, because it hurts me to even sit up. When I first had the accident there were several times when I would spend 3-7 days in bed at a time simply because it hurt too much to sit up. I once spent a full month in bed with the exception of driving my wife to and from work because it literally made me sick to sit up. As for what you said about your friend his family may and may not be the cause of his depression. Before getting on medication I was having suicidal thoughts, it nearly ended my 18 year marriage and was causing problems with friends and other family members. My letting my feelings out yelling etc is what caused much of the problems I just named. I have never had a problem expressing my feelings. If I don't like something or someone I let it be known.