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« Thread Started on Apr 4, 2007, 6:13pm »

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The majority of cases of "depression" that are given anti-depressants today are cases of situational depression not clinical depression. And yes, I say it's due to laziness but it's not that people are truly that lazy or unmotivated. People are working to hard at their jobs and trying to pay the bills and keep their kids in line to take the time to fix themselves. Instead the schedule a doc's appointment probably during their lunch break and tell the doc that they are depressed, irritable, can't sleep or are tired all the time, can't focus, etc.. the doc, who is most liking going through the same situation himself grabs for the prescription pad and hey presto... anti-depressants. After all he has 8 people left in the waiting room and was supposed to have his lunch break 20 minutes ago.

It's much easier for people to take the quick fix than to work at their issues, this is evident just by the number of people who elect to have plastic surgery and tummy tucks rather than a gym membership... Oh yeah and the number of healthy, situationally depressed people on prescription meds.

I saw an article in the net news today that made me remember this post.

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Up to 25% wrongly diagnosed as depressed: study
04/04/2007 4:58:09 PM

As many as one out of every four people told they have depression could, in fact, be reacting normally to some of life's more troubling times.

That's the finding of a new study this week, published in The Archives of General Psychiatry, based on a study of 8,000 people.

According to the research, 25 per cent of people diagnosed with depression were found to be simply struggling with a normal reaction to a recent emotional blow, such a death of a family member, a divorce or a job loss.

Extended periods of depression-like symptoms are common in people who have been through a life stress and don't necessarily constitute illness, the study concluded.

"Medication in these cases is unwarranted, and in the case of teenagers downright dangerous," says board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist A. B. Curtiss. People should turn instead to physical exercise and cognitive behavioral methods to build confidence and coping skills in handling life's crises.

The researchers based their findings on a national survey of 8,098 people. They found that those who had experienced a variety of stressful events frequently had prolonged periods in which they reported many symptoms of depression. Only a fraction, however, had severe symptoms that could be classified as clinical depression, the researchers said.

Patients are currently diagnosed as clinically depressed based on whether they suffer a number of identified symptoms, including fatigue, insomnia and suicidal thoughts.

The diagnostic manual used by psychiatrists says that anyone who suffers from at least five such symptoms for as little as two weeks may be clinically depressed.

Medicating many of the patients going through normal periods of grief is unnecessary, suggests the study. Supportive therapy on the other hand, can be more appropriate and helpful and might keep a person from going on to develop full-blown depression.

Lead author Dr. Jerome C.Wakefield, insists that the apparent epidemic of depression is caused by the psychiatric profession reclassifying normal human sadness as a medical illness that can be cured with drugs.

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