/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

To my knowledge, there's a significant difference in how your brain works while you're depressed. See it as a non-chronic mental hormone underproduction problem, compared to schizophrenia as a genetic hormone production defect. if that makes any sense.

Not the only one. It doesn't help that side effects (or only partial alleviation of symptoms) is making me feel fucking worse as fuck, which makes me feel like I'm a stupid fucking attention whore liar.

But in some other way, I know it's not right for people to want to kill themselves. Not that I think of it that way, since it's kinda been there as long as I remember in the background.

Even anxiety feels like bullshit, even though the drugs have had a noticeable, positive effect on that.

I don't really care if you call it "a real mental illness".

It's still a problem, no matter what you call it.

Failure is no illness.

As a schizophrenic, I have to say that depression is a serious disorder. The negative symptoms of schizophrenia are basically just like depression, so I know how it feels. Those have inhibited me far more than any hallucinations could.

It's the worst feeling. I mean, holy shit, why am I feeling this bad when some people have it worse than me? Being here in /mental/ makes me feel worse already. I feel like an ungrateful fool.

Whining aside, it IS a mental illness. It clouds your judgement and it poses a severe threat to your life if left untreated.

It is over-diagonsed like adhd.

Is it depression i i feel empty/grey most of the time and also kinda robotic.
I don't even know who i'm, other than i'm me.

I don't know if there's enough evidence to know if depression is caused by a difference in the brain, or vice versa.

But I know what you mean; it does sound trivial compared to people with "real" mental illnesses, partly because people say "I've been feeling depressed lately" flippantly, as opposed to someone with *with depression*.

For myself, I see it as self-perpetuating and quite simply flawed. If it's physical or just the result of habit, something is wrong with the way my thought process develops, so I call myself "depressed".

Also,
>>5538
is right. People are even given pills if they just don't feel happy. Not being happy and being depressed are two completely different things (IMO).

>>5538
At least ADHD is diagnosed where you live. I have all the symptoms of ADHD since childhood and never know any respite. I have tried talking to doctors about it : no one ever heard of it. Meds like Adderall aren't even commercialized here. It is an unknown disorder. I will have to travel to the US to get a treatment.

>>5567
That is strange. Unless you are living in some warzone african country they should know adhd. Well at least hyperactivity. I live in turd world country when I joked to my doctor I wouldnt mind getting some adderal he got all strange and asked me where did i heard its name lel.