Depression is not a drug induced illness. Many depressives turn to alcohol or drugs to try to stop the pain from depression. If you’ve never felt the emptiness & hopelessness of depression, consider yourself very fortunate.
Amen sister it haunts me and it is real
“Depression is not a drug induced illness.”
Talk to Robin Williams about that.
If you've never felt the emptiness & hopelessness of depression, consider yourself very fortunate.
I like to relate the experience of the late Sir Winston Churchill. I am not sure what years he was referring to. Churchill referred to his depression as "black dog". For when he woke up in the morning he said "it was like a large black dog sitting on his chest".
If there is anything some us can impart to deal with depression, it is in a good cause. No drugs for me, my generation never took 'em. Not that we youngsters were any better than any other generation, just that drugs did not generally exist. Talking about the 1940's and 1950's.
I was proscribed Zoloft. The results scared the living daylights out of me. Got off them double quick. I just shake off the blahs on arising and get going. First to the coffee shop. Set myself tasks to be done. Walk my dog over at the park etc. Well, I should quit right here. Not to forget condolences to fans of the late Robin Williams. Loved "Mrs. Doubt fire".
I should mention the death of old soldier of WW2. He was Charlie Payne, 89 years of age. He was the President's uncle. His sister was Madlyn Payne Dunham, the mother of Stanley Ann Dunham. He was in the opening up of a concentration camp, Ohrdruf in Germany. What he saw he never forget. He was quite successful in returning to civilian life.
Excuse the ramble everyone!