do u think people make themselves depressed??

Question

everyone lately says -like if someone looks sad or is having a bad day.. they say oh my gosh she/he is depressed??? isnt the word being overused?? and are they doin it to themselves??? and do the pills really work or is it in their heads????

Answer 1

The word is overused, there are clinical and medical instances of cause and effect for depression, but lately it is more confusion of priority than actual clinical depression. A lot of the confusion has to do with the way we are conditioned, particularly with psychiatric commercialism. These advertising scams are meant to touch on certain parts of the human psyche, specifically to open the mind and make the person more suggestible. When vague aspects of everyday life are presented in a bleak fashion and associated with some mental or physical disorder, the mind begins searching for these symptoms and side-effects that aren't there but rather are implanted as a means for the pseudo-science of psychiatry to pitch it's crap. Some people are so impressionable that they even begin to do develop an actual clinical depression from these commercials, which is actually what pharmaceutical companies are vouching for. They know that these people are the ones that line the pockets of the industry. Most of the time the 'relief' is entirely accredited to the fact that they are told it will help if they pop the pills. It's mind over matter, the only type that the mental health industry will ever endorse because if patients realize how they are using it and how they can use it to help themselves, the industry loses profit. Medicine in America is about prolonging the symptoms of your ailment or masking them to create new one's over time. There are cures for most forms of cancer for damn near all hallucinatory disorders and syndromes and even for a lot nervous disorders. The anti-psychotics are chemical compounds of the stuff we outlaw on the streets. We outlawed the street sales because we cannot realistically regulate or profit from them as a bureaucracy. They counteract the chemicals already present in the brain by forcing it to go into over-drive on the production of others temporarily subduing the auditory or visual hallucinations by distracting those functions in the brain with other forms of unhealthy activity.

I believe that there are medicines out there that are doing the best
thing that can be done, it is mostly because there is no cure for what they being prescribed for. I'm not a Scientologist I'm just not a puppet who follows the first thing I am told by a man in a white jacket.

Answer 2

Yes I do feel Depression is overused/over diagnosed, thus leading to a societal view that it really is "only" about being sad, which it is not.
No, truly depressed people ARE NOT doing it to themselves, believe me if we could choose NOT to feel this way we would!!!
Sometime medication does work insofar as taking enough of the edge of the depression off that we can function, it does NOT make us slap-happy, skipping, smiling, laughing, fools however. It just makes us feels that life is bearable enough to get out of bed and do what we have to do to get through the day. At least that is what it does for me.
Clinical test have shown that there IS a chemical deficiency or irregularity in function in the brains of CLINICALLY depressed persons....so it is not fictitious, but yes it is all in our heads so to speak....

Answer 3

Usally people do not make themselves depressed, it seems to happen when something bad happens in their life's and they don't deal with the problem head on, things just keep adding up.. It's also chemical imbalance and a disease. When your sad and having a bad it's not being depressed, it's simply having a bad day. Depression is something that is with you everyday, for year's even, and yes some people need pills to help them, it does not get better overnight.

Answer 4

no i don't think that word is being over used. don't you know that last year alone they treated more then 2 million people with depression. and no they don't do it to themsepfs. usually it is a event that happens that will make them feel that way. NO IT'S NOT IN THERE HEADS.

i am getting treatment for depression. yes i am on pills but if i wasn't my day wouldn't go as well as it does.and the event that made me depressed was three diffrent ones. my grandma died, that day my water broke i had a baby. which i wouldn't change that for the world. and i found out i might have something wrong with me. thats alot to take in at one time. so hopually i helped you to answer your question.

Answer 5

Well I've been on the pills and off the pills and yeah being on the medication does seem to help. I have more good days when I'm on Zoloft than bad ones. I was too the point that I didn't want to go on. I was looking for anyway out. I don't have the suicidal tendencies when I'm on the medication like I do when I'm off

Answer 6

A lot of depression is real and is caused by a genetic imbalance of chemicals in the brain. Some people are manic and they need lithium to function properly. Some people have a genetic deficiency of zinc and vitamin B6 and that causes certain types of depression also. People cannot just "get over it". Sometimes people get depressed in the winter months when they don't get enough sunlight. Sometimes people have had awful things happen in their lives and their brain is sort of exhausted and so they become depressed. Their brains need time to heal after trauma.

Answer 7

It pisses me off when everybody is "depressed". From somebody who has had depression for most of her life, its annoying when people are depressed because they got a low mark in an essay, or the last chocolate dougnut is gone.

Depression is a physical illness, and there are people out there who genuinly have depression, but the word gets horrendously overused. Tsk.

Answer 8

someone once told me that no one can make you mad without your permission. i think there may be legitimate causes for anxiety, depression and a lot of other things we term mental illnesses, but for the majority i believe they allow themselves to be depressed or anxious. your question hit home for me this morning. ive been fighting with anxiety disorder and panic attacks for years. i was trying to form a well thought out answer for you and thought to myself "i am allowing things to make me anxious". its not something i can just turn off, but at least looking at it from that point of view, its now something i can work on from a different perspective. how many others of you ALLOW yourself to be ruled by something? think about it. no person or object can make you feel any way you dont want to feel without your permission. so just smile, if nothing else it will make people wonder what youre up to! have an amazing day!

Answer 9

Unless there is a physical dysfunction of the brain, I think that we can choose to be happy or sad. We can choose how we want to look at something. We can see it either in a negative aspect or positive.

If we are constantly looking for the negative in things, then it becomes like a bad habit. We need to practice ways to be positive in order to break the cycle of negativity. Negativity can only lead to more negativity and takes a lot more energy. Being positive lifts our energy and takes us to another level of thinking.

Answer 10

Some people can feel sad but it doesnt mean they're all clinically depressed. Depression is a mental illness,i've seen very depressed people and they dont bring it on themselves,bad life events usually trigger it or it can just come on you.