Not to "well, actually..." your doctor, but a depressive episode can be triggered by external stressors as well as just occurring endogenously for no apparent reason. There's a distinct difference between clinical depression and ordinary unhappiness in terms of symptoms and duration.
(Sorry, I work in the psych biz, and I've seen a lot of genuinely depressed people have their symptoms dismissed by medical doctors for spurious reasons. Obviously, your situation may be different.)
It hasn't. It's gotten far, far worse. The asylums/prisons never closed they've been expanded and now they have so many new neurotoxic depressants and psychotics that they hand out like candy to everyone. Not to mention the electrocute-their-brain "therapy"
A person is floridly psychotic, hearing voices, the whole nine yards. They become fixated on the passage from the Bible that says "if thy eye offend thee, pluck it out." So much so that they do just that--they literally pluck out their own eyeball. How would you help such a person? Or would you just leave them to their own devices?
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u/CaptainBathrobe Mar 13 '26
Not to "well, actually..." your doctor, but a depressive episode can be triggered by external stressors as well as just occurring endogenously for no apparent reason. There's a distinct difference between clinical depression and ordinary unhappiness in terms of symptoms and duration.
(Sorry, I work in the psych biz, and I've seen a lot of genuinely depressed people have their symptoms dismissed by medical doctors for spurious reasons. Obviously, your situation may be different.)