<story><title>We&apos;ve Got Depression All Wrong. It&apos;s Trying to Save Us</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202012/weve-got-depression-all-wrong-its-trying-to-save-us</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AStonesThrow</author><text>Depression was my soul&amp;#x27;s reaction to about 16 years of systematic abuse, emotional neglect, ridicule and bullying. My intellect finally shut down and I withdrew from reality entirely, or at least that was the goal.&lt;p&gt;At the time my new abuser would ask things like what I was thinking. This was a novelty for me but she was probably trying to figure out ways to torment me more effectively. She also explained that I was trying to hide by sleeping all the time. One teacher wrote a note about my laziness, and I knew he was correct.&lt;p&gt;Depression wasn&amp;#x27;t my fault, and it wasn&amp;#x27;t within my capacity to recover from it. But my family turned it into something exclusively my responsibility. I was drugged over and over; I was permitted to leave home without any means of support or homemaking skills, and I was eventually discarded by means of restraining orders and physical assaults, so I left the state.&lt;p&gt;If a child is depressed then the worst thing to do is blame, medicate, and isolate them with individual treatment. My counselor encouraged morally reprehensible behavior and never questioned my home life.&lt;p&gt;If your child is depressed then you&amp;#x27;d better consider their environment and social networks to be suspect. If you can&amp;#x27;t identify problems, then YOU ARE the problem and you&amp;#x27;ll need to address that with decisive action, in a practical and honest manner.</text></comment>
<story><title>We&apos;ve Got Depression All Wrong. It&apos;s Trying to Save Us</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202012/weve-got-depression-all-wrong-its-trying-to-save-us</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ndarray</author><text>&amp;gt; It is time that we start honoring the courage and strength of depressed people. It is time we start valuing the incredible capacity of our biology to find a way in hard times. And it is time that we stop pretending depressed people are any different than anyone else.&lt;p&gt;The article&amp;#x27;s conclusion ends in a call for society to change its ways. Such an appeal is easy to make. What&amp;#x27;s not so easy is telling a depressed person what to do &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt; under the circumstance that society hasn&amp;#x27;t changed and likely isn&amp;#x27;t going to change.</text></comment>