[vetsvette]

My guess is that depression is largely a leftist disease, related in some way to their other mental disorders.

[decimon]

My guess is that depression is largely a leftist disease...

There are many threads here to indicate otherwise.

[Graybeard58]

My guess is that depression is largely a leftist disease, related in some way to their other mental disorders.

Like Winston Churchill and Abe Lincoln?

[Jorge]

My guess is that depression is largely a leftist disease, related in some way to their other mental disorders.

In as far as they want to blame others for their lot in life and make the Govt and the rich responsible for solving their problems, yes they are more succeptible to depression.

Otherwise depression crosses all political boundaries. There certainly are some miserable people on these boards.

[SteveMcKing]

One may well be depressed changing diapers and working a drive-through window. The fiends who run this world do want you happy -- but happy only right there, and no where else.

Depression is awful, but it's not a disease anymore than addiction or "ADD".

Treating it so has a bit to do with the Left's penchant for drug-worship, but a far greater motive is the dehumanizing, economic, and political control over every person they diagnose.

Instantly gone are electability and gun rights. Social stigma, being so blatant and unalterable, is paid lip-service as something wrong and unjustified.

Today's doctor-patient relationship: the doctor drives 6-figure cars and has as many affairs as he or she chooses. The patient is told that being poor (in any respect, not just in dollar terms) is OK, "just take your happy pills... By the way- you are probably gay, but I'm taking your girl out to dinner tonight... go find a fag to be happy with. That will be $350, pay me now or later."

    "[Depression is] a natural response to things going south and never returning north for the summer."

Well said.

    Depression leads to $30 billion to $44 billion in lost productivity annually, said the report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Again, the motive for aristocratic concern is revealed. It's not that we are stuck changing diapers, it's that someone wants us to work harder for them.

[31R1O]

No it is listening to NPR all day. I have a co-worker (afile clerk) who listens to NPR in the file room. It dawned on me after being down there for 20 minutes or so why libs are so upset all of the time. It was just one negative headline after another. I had this horrible urge to jump out of a window (just kidding). Seriously though, it was some depressing stuff!

[WFTR]

My guess is that depression is largely a leftist disease, related in some way to their other mental disorders.

I'm a conservative who has suffered from depression, and I've had several family members with similar problems. I suspect that any real survey would find depression equally distributed among political ideologies.

Bill