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Does mental illness qualify as a sickness?
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<blockquote data-quote="Xexys" data-source="post: 1309093" data-attributes="member: 47259"><p>A person who has never been affected by depression really does have a hard time dealing with a loved one who does have this. While I can relate to you wanting a person to "force themselves" to get out of bed, this is much harder to understand than anything I've ever tried to understand. It is very hard for a depressed person to even want to get out of bed let alone do it.</p><p></p><p>While there are many stages of depression, a person who's diagnosed with severe depression has no control of their mind. The OP describes colors not being as vibrant. This I can relate to with my wife. She has also described to me the same. Stomach aches, aura headaches are also full indications of severe depression. Forcing oneself to "get out of bed" or mingle with people just isn't in the realm of reality for a depressed individual. Understand, most severe cases of depression almost certainly have tendencies to just want to be dead. Not necessarily kill oneself, just be dead. My wife once described it as she wouldn't care if she was involved in a car accident that killed her. So, it's not suicide per say, just a descriptive word (suicide) for an end result of the depressed state of mind.</p><p></p><p>A person such as myself has a hard time dealing with this state of mind. Counseling is probably in my future as one of the posters here in this thread has described. I believe it will help me to understand more of what the depressed mind is really all about.</p><p></p><p>I feel your pain Rawrzxor. Hang in there and for sure go see a good psych doctor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xexys, post: 1309093, member: 47259"] A person who has never been affected by depression really does have a hard time dealing with a loved one who does have this. While I can relate to you wanting a person to "force themselves" to get out of bed, this is much harder to understand than anything I've ever tried to understand. It is very hard for a depressed person to even want to get out of bed let alone do it. While there are many stages of depression, a person who's diagnosed with severe depression has no control of their mind. The OP describes colors not being as vibrant. This I can relate to with my wife. She has also described to me the same. Stomach aches, aura headaches are also full indications of severe depression. Forcing oneself to "get out of bed" or mingle with people just isn't in the realm of reality for a depressed individual. Understand, most severe cases of depression almost certainly have tendencies to just want to be dead. Not necessarily kill oneself, just be dead. My wife once described it as she wouldn't care if she was involved in a car accident that killed her. So, it's not suicide per say, just a descriptive word (suicide) for an end result of the depressed state of mind. A person such as myself has a hard time dealing with this state of mind. Counseling is probably in my future as one of the posters here in this thread has described. I believe it will help me to understand more of what the depressed mind is really all about. I feel your pain Rawrzxor. Hang in there and for sure go see a good psych doctor. [/QUOTE]
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