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"Depression"

What is depression? i mean people always say they are depressed but are they really depressed or just simply unhappy. I mean yeh a psychiatrist can say someone is depressed but isn't that just their job and maybe just want to keep their job. All these people who get labelled freaks for cutting their arms, Are they freaks? or simply depressed. Can anyone describe the real feeling or meaning of depression?

People who have clinical depression have a chemical imbalance in the brain, which can be treated by balancing out the levels of the chemicals. Depression often has triggers though, which need to be delt with by a psychiatrist. From what I have been tought, (and I admit that this has a very medical bias) You can't properly treat clinical depression without implementing both forms of treatment in tandom.

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Izo_uk wrote:
> was it a bad feeling to you rasta how did you overcome it?

Mainly because the things that were making me do it gradually started to stop.

was it a bad feeling to you rasta how did you overcome it?

SHEEPY wrote:
> You should get help Rasta

I stopped a while ago.

Rasta is correct, Self-Harm is a way to release tension and troubles.

Pain is just weakness leaving the body...

You should get help Rasta

SHEEPY wrote:
> Make some homemade prozac likes Homer did once

Prozac is overrated.

From my own experience, what self harm does is somehow release all the tension, all the hurt, all the reality from buzzing under your skin. It wells up in you and it annoys you, it bugs you and it drives to the point of doing anything to get it out. It gnaws at you and makes you want to cry. And when you do, for a few minutes everything that's been haunting you and hurting you just seeps out through the red slit in your skin.

At least that's how I felt.

I've never been depressed but i've been pretty down in the past. Thats just normal though - to feel sad.

Fortunately, I've never actually talked to someone who's depressed, I just would not know how to handle that situtation...