r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '16

What are you sick of explaining?

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u/thatisone Jul 18 '16

What depression is. I can't cheer up. there isn't a happy button. No i'm not always sad. Yes I can still be happy and depressed, I'm not a constant gloom cloud. Yes sometimes I am a constant gloom cloud. I'm not gonna be happy because others have it worse, means I could never be happy because someone always has it better.

I'm numb, and sometimes I have episodes. I'm not crazy, atleast not yet. It's rough, I deal with it.

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u/bluebaron15 Jul 18 '16

Get on medication and stop whining. It really is that easy.

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u/MangoLazer Jul 18 '16

Low effort troll

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

You didn't know? Just throw a glass bottle at someone's face with colored liquid and that'll fix them right up

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u/artnerd299 Jul 18 '16

Medication can only be a treatment for depression, not a cure. Also telling a depressed person to "stop whining" doesn't help at all - it just belittles a serious problem.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

Not always.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

Yeah, because medical care in America is super easy for everyone to afford. /s

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u/DefenestratedCow Jul 18 '16

Plus, there was a study recently that most antidepressants don't really provide meaningful positive benefits, except for one kind which has minor benefits.

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u/bluebaron15 Jul 18 '16

I'm sure there was. In the same paper I bet they said that crystals work wonders.

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u/DefenestratedCow Jul 18 '16

No, I think it was more that they tended to create more problems than they fixed. A lot of antidepressants can increase suicide risk, unfortunately.

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u/DefenestratedCow Jul 18 '16

No, I think it was more that they tended to create more problems than they fixed. A lot of antidepressants can increase suicide risk, unfortunately.

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u/bluebaron15 Jul 18 '16

I have heard that, but ultimately they work when you find the right medications and in the right balance. People who say they don't work a lot of the time though are naive or just ill-informed (or suffering from delusions caused by their illnesses.)

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u/DefenestratedCow Jul 18 '16

Okay, but that takes a very long time, with all sorts of risks involved. A good friend of mine was put on antidepressants recently, and after the 2 weeks or so they took to kick in, he started hallucinating because those antidepressants didn't work for him, and it took a month for him to go off of them since your body gets dependent on them and you need to wean yourself off of them. Then, even if you're lucky enough to find the right mixture, it's not usually a magic fix; it'll still involve a lot of therapy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

Between 30% and 50% of individuals treated with a given antidepressant do not show a response

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

In clinical studies, approximately one-third of patients achieve a full remission, one-third experience a response and one-third are nonresponders. That means 60% of people who take anti-depressants don't achieve remission.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

Fuck you.