Comments on: The Will to Recover http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/ "Words cannot describe how I feel"? Nonsense. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:41:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: crazyasuka http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-24 crazyasuka Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:53:12 +0000 http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-24 Depression is very hard to define, some people don't even believe it is real. When we stay a whole sunday in bed and avoid any kind of contact and responsibility, or when we stop talking to our friends... is it really because an illness is making us? or we are just using this as an excuse? Even if we choose to believe the second option, we then get all these guilty feelings of still not been able to do anything about it. But is it real? Are we that out of control or we just don't want to fix ourselves? Are we just avoiding life because it's hard? is there any way to know?... Depression is very hard to define, some people don’t even believe it is real. When we stay a whole sunday in bed and avoid any kind of contact and responsibility, or when we stop talking to our friends… is it really because an illness is making us? or we are just using this as an excuse? Even if we choose to believe the second option, we then get all these guilty feelings of still not been able to do anything about it. But is it real? Are we that out of control or we just don’t want to fix ourselves? Are we just avoiding life because it’s hard? is there any way to know?…

]]> By: Ashley http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-15 Ashley Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:45:12 +0000 http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-15 Read Kramer's book "Against Depression" for more information on the culture of depression. From the book: "... They wore their depression with panache ..." Read Kramer’s book “Against Depression” for more information on the culture of depression. From the book: “… They wore their depression with panache …”

]]> By: ideas2words http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-14 ideas2words Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:19:48 +0000 http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-14 I find it interesting that depression has the rare quality of producing the conditions that help it thrive. For example, I'm depressed, so I can't get to work; I can't get to work, so I get fired; I get fired, so I get depressed. Another: I am depressed, so I don't want to talk to anyone; I don't talk to anyone, so no one talks to me; All my friends have "abandoned" me (cognitive distortion and negative interpretation of events are symptoms of depression as well); My friends abandoned me, so I am all alone; I'm all alone, so I am depressed. I could go on and on. I find it interesting that depression has the rare quality of producing the conditions that help it thrive. For example, I’m depressed, so I can’t get to work; I can’t get to work, so I get fired; I get fired, so I get depressed. Another: I am depressed, so I don’t want to talk to anyone; I don’t talk to anyone, so no one talks to me; All my friends have “abandoned” me (cognitive distortion and negative interpretation of events are symptoms of depression as well); My friends abandoned me, so I am all alone; I’m all alone, so I am depressed. I could go on and on.

]]> By: cherished79 http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-13 cherished79 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:15:20 +0000 http://ideas2words.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-will-to-recover/#comment-13 Speaking on the subject of "not wanting to get better", in my opinion, this can only be understood from the person who's ill. This just wouldn't make sense to anyone else; the family, friends - who would think of such a notion - why would someone not want to get well? They do not realize that that person is living under a veil of blackness so horrible, encased in stone and unable to move or even think clearly. And therin lies the part of blame. "You are not helping yourself". If you had cancer, and in chemo - would you be helping yourself? Maybe it's just me, but we, with mental illness get needless, undeserved rapping. Speaking on the subject of “not wanting to get better”, in my opinion, this can only be understood from the person who’s ill. This just wouldn’t make sense to anyone else; the family, friends – who would think of such a notion – why would someone not want to get well? They do not realize that that person is living under a veil of blackness so horrible, encased in stone and unable to move or even think clearly.

And therin lies the part of blame. “You are not helping yourself”. If you had cancer, and in chemo – would you be helping yourself? Maybe it’s just me, but we, with mental illness get needless, undeserved rapping.

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