Depression - What help is available?

[Waldo]

Also adverts just add to the idea that the acquisition of 'things' is of mega importance, or at the very least it's designed to make people want things. It all adds to the pressure.

 

Just to add to this Anna. With adverts (and this is nothing I could, or would want to, quantify and prove), I think companies can often set out to cultivate feelings of lack or inferiority in people, such that buying their product will alleviate that lack. They don't want you to feel that you are perfectly fine and complete as you are...

[Anna B]

Just to add to this Anna. With adverts (and this is nothing I could, or would want to, quantify and prove), I think companies can often set out to cultivate feelings of lack or inferiority in people, such that buying their product will alleviate that lack. They don't want you to feel that you are perfectly fine and complete as you are...

 

Yes. 'Aspirational' seems to be the buzzword of the moment. But there's nothing wrong with 'contentment' in my book.

[Reilly]

I got your message annab,

Having problems with replying,

 

I won't repeat what I tried to send! But thank you for your concern! I will get away from this place and get better!

[Bob Arctor]

Why should doctors come to your home? Who pays for this special treatment?

People are so reliant on the state and take no responsibility for own health first.

 

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The waiting list for cbt is crazy. I waited 12 mths. There are things you can do yourself, doctors and quacks not always the answer

 

I think you are being quite unfair to some people. Remember that depression and anxiety often go hand in hand; there are many people who really struggle to get through the front door for whom a trip to the GP is a massive deal.

Which would seem a more viable option if one was guaranteed to see a GP who is interested or has the time to be interested, but if you've built yourself up over weeks to actually go to the GP and then get the brush-off or be fobbed off with Paroxetine, which even its manufacturers privately accept has no effect, then you can see why people give up.

 

As Snailyboy as pointed out, the paradox with more severe depression is that you can know exactly what you should be doing but lack the motivation to do it, because you are so depressed.

 

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Why is depression escalating is the question that should be asked. I personally dont think it is. It is simply that its being diagnosed more.

 

Unfortunately the side effect to this is that people are using it as an excuse to get out of work making it harder for those people with the illness from being believed when they need help or believing they have got it themselves to seek help.

 

40 years ago you could walk out of school knowing you would get a job somewhere and that job would be fairly secure. You could afford to live near your family who could support you. You knew a lot of the people who lived around you, you worked with a lot of them and you possibly went on holiday to the same place as them. You spent a lot of time out of the house, socialising with friends and family. You could plan your life with a reasonable degree of certainty even if you didn't have much money and you knew that when you retired you would have a reasonable standard of living.

 

Now you walk out of school wondering when you might get a job, which is increasingly likely to be an insecure, zero hours job from which you could be sacked at any moment and which doesn't allow you to plan very far ahead because you don't know if you will still have a job in 6 months or a year's time. It's increasingly difficult to live near family who could support you because you may have been priced out of that area. People spend more and more time isolated, looking at screens, and less time out and about with friends and family. If you become ill and have to stop work you are no longer guaranteed to be looked after by the state but more likely to be harassed and denied the help you need. The value of your pension gets eaten away year on year and you generally have a lot less security and therefore more to worry about.

 

I don't think that's the only reason why depression is on the rise, which it is in nearly all the OECD countries, but I think it's part of it.