My wife suffers from depression (I know what you’re thinking — well, she is married to you). But she has also been found to be genetically resistant to anti-depressants. Also, as a psychiatrist once told me, all the anti-depressants work. The problem is finding out which one works for whom. Also, none work forever. You have to find another when the one you’re using stops woking. As a fundamentally shallow person, I am apparently immune to depression. But I have seen it at work. And it don’t look pretty. Several psychiatrists have told me that electroconvulsive therapy is the most effective therapy. But 1940s movies gave it a bad rep. Of course today, thanks to improved anaesthetics, it isn’t as it was then.
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ReplyDeleteI too must be shallow, as I'm generally a happy-go-lucky person and I'm rarely depressed, unlike my wife the realist. She worries about our families' problems for both of us. I'm so sorry for your wife's medical troubles. I hope she gets better in the future.
Depression is nothing like the oft-misused 'feeling depressed', but is a serious and often life-threatening ilness (which you obviously know, Frank). Joking about shallowness or even suggesting that being happy-go-lucky rather than realistic is in some measure relevant only encourages the stigma of mental illness.
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