[ SECRET POST #2219 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2219 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Oofuri]


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[Adventure Time]


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[How I Met Your Mother]


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[Gangnam Style/PSY]


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[Arthur Conan Doyle]


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[Sherlock]


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[Richard Armitage]


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[Bioshock 1&2, Heavy Rain, Silent Hill 1&3, Alias, Taken 1&2, Once Upon A Time]


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[Lizzie Bennet Diaries]


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[Steam Powered Giraffe]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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[Ghost World/Safety Not Guaranteed]


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[Patalliro]


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[Bones]


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[Hetalia]


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[Dynasty Warriors]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is it cool nowadays for people to say they are 'depressed' when they really have a legitimate reason to be just 'sad'? I have nothing against OP, it just bugs me that people are so ready to call themselves depressed - I think it's overmedicalisation that we happily call something an illness, when it's just a perfectly natural emotion.

[yeahscience]

Situational depression is a thing too, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the time, I'd still call that normal, you are kind of supposed to be stressed when there are big changes in your life? (insert evolutionary shit here) I'd say it was a disease invented by psychiatrists to make more money, but I don't know enough about the topic so experts are welcome to call this bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL ok doctor. I think you mean 'adjustment disorder' and that is not the same as major depression. A real MDD diagnosis specifically EXCLUDES depressed mood caused by direct, identifiable stressors such as bereavement. "Situational depression" is really not depression in the proper sense. If you insist on calling Adjustment Disorder "situational depression", at least recognize that it includes depressed mood --and perhaps a major depressive EPISODE-- but is NOT Major Depressive Disorder.

Arggg. It may be "a thing" but it is practically not. It's just being really sad/down because of some specific event(s) for a limited (and often short) period of time.

Everyone gets this way and unless it is significantly adversely affecting or significantly impairing the patient's normal life, it's not even diagnosable as even AD.

[yeahscience]

Okay, rude for no reason! I'm just gonna point to diet_poison's reply down below.

[fuchsiascreams]

Slightly rude.

Also, job/life stress can trigger depressive episodes in people with mood disorders.

[diet_poison]

uh hi

Depression is an illness. Yes some people say they have it when they don't, yes some people use medication when they don't need it, but please do not suggest it isn't a legitimate illness because it definitely is.

[(Anonymous)]

Not saying it's not an illness? But being sad about bad things happening to you is pretty much in the healthy range, no matter what a medical website says.

[diet_poison]

Ok...but sad events can trigger depression. Like, they can start it and then you never feel better, don't get over it, etc. or react to it way worse than you should. Sometimes it's hard to tell if it's actually depression I guess if something shitty is happening at the same time.

My depression started out of the blue. Like, my life was actually pretty great at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree with that! I just felt that since OP used "recently", it is a bit forced to call it depression already? I think that a lot of people using this word for a totally normal feeling kind of trivializes real depression, so it should be used a bit more cautiously.

[(Anonymous)]

On the other hand, many depression sufferers fail to get help because they don't realise that depression doesn't always mean 'can't even get up out of bed' and downplay their own symptoms, or feel like they're exaggerating. It's a complicated illness.

[fuchsiascreams]

I think this is a really important point. While there is a lot of attention paid to the fact that many people are diagnosed with a mood disorder they don't have, there are also a lot of people who don't even realize that they have depression because they think of it as being constantly suicidally depressed to the point where they can't/don't want to get out of bed. But for a lot of people, depression isn't so much the presence of depression as the absence of an ability to experience happiness (anhedonia). i.e. I get severe depressive episodes, but they're relatively uncommon (maybe once or twice a year, not triggered by anything, just out of the blue) - but the rest of the time, I'm not sad, per se - I just have a complete absence of ability to feel happiness or pleasure, and a lack of energy and motivation to do even the most basic things. I often describe it as only being able to experience negative emotions (for example, being extremely upset by one of my pets dying, but not being able to get happy or excited by a party coming up, or going out with friends, or getting a new pet, or going on vacation).

[diet_poison]

Yeah, I'm glad you pointed out that depression can be trivialized because that is very true and it's important to point out.

I guess my thinking was kind of like the anon above me - it's possible to not realize you have depression, think "oh it will go away" and then it never does...better safe than sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

Um... no.

Clinical depression is very much a real disorder.

[fuchsiascreams]

I hear you. I do understand what you're saying, and I think the idea that being sad = depression is one that contributes a LOT to the enormous cultural misunderstanding of mood and anxiety disorders, but there is also such a thing as situational depression. The problem is that it's difficult for someone on the outside to tell whether the person has legitimate situational depression, or is just experiencing a normal range of sadness because of life stress.

That being said, it does really bother me when people are like, "I'M SAD! DEPRESSION!", or "I'M MOODY! BIPOLAR!", or "I'M NERVOUS ABOUT THIS ORAL PRESENTATION! ANXIETY DISORDER!". There is a normal range of depression, anxiety, and moodiness that people will feel throughout their lifetime. The problem is that, since most people have experienced the feeling of being depressed, and the feeling of being anxious, they think that their experiences with that normal range of human emotions is what depression the disorder and anxiety the illness is. And it's not. There is a difference between BEING depressed and HAVING depression.