Clinical depression is a state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living....
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Stigma - what would you never like to hear again?
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I'm working with a mental-health advocacy group on campus, and we're running a stomp-out-stigma day. I was wondering if there was anything in particular that really gets to you about the stigma surrounding mental illness? Something people say? Don't say? Do? Don't do? e.g. the sense that one should 'snap out of it' or that depression is 'just a phase' - those are the biggies for me, but I know everyone has his or her own experience.
Thanks! Posted on 10/02/07, 08:10 pm |
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i too dont like it when people say to just "snap out of it." "you could choose to be happy if you wanted to." thats another one! 
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What the hell do you have to be depressed about some people have it alot worse than you I hate that .
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here's one...."Cheer up! You'll feel better!!"
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My biggest annoyance is "everyone feels that way sometimes" - yeah, well? Does everyone try to slit their wrists? No!!!
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Better yet, depressed people are people who sit on their arses all day feeling sorry for themselves AND use it as a viable excuse to get disability benefits. Riiiiight.
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Just shrug it off
Pull yourself up by your boot straps Be more like a duck and let it roll off
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Thanks for all the feedback!!
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