Janet Street Porter Calls Depression a Trendy Middle Class Fad

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Sorry if I'm duplicating any threads here, but I've only just heard about this disgusting article.

So, to synopsise, the cure for depression (if it exists at all) is to stick some sort of a pole up yer ass, maybe one just like hers...

its a shit, badly written and poorly researched article.

Of course I would say that because im going through a non-reactive, clinical episode of depression and anxiety - and its bloody awful.

For me depression has very little to do with unhappiness. When im well i am (very) happy.
Its the illness that makes me unhappy - not the other way round

It's a mental illness, MmeD, not a mental condition. Your brain & mine are configured just like everyone else's, but stopped working normally because of an illness. Illnesses have causes. The neurotransmitter imbalance, which you & I both suffer from, arises from long-term dysfunction within the nervous system. The dysfunction is usually provoked by excess adrenalin/cortisol and the brain's attempts to correct that - extended fight-or-flight response, in other words.

I understand how this happened to me. I'm grateful for my meds, which have literally saved my life. But if I had: [a] quit the job; [b] quit the marriage; [c] got therapy for my fucked-up childhood ... I wouldn't have had all those unhelpful hormones paralysing my brain, and wouldn't have become as ill as I did. I needed a straight-talking, insightful friend more than I needed the very expensive doctors who kept me going back for more sympathy & medications ...

I'm not saying depression isn't real; I don't think JSP did, either. But, like any other illness, it won't get better until you remove the cause.

money - lack of or not lack of- has absolutely nothing to do with my depression. nothing at all.

kizzie, bipolar is a condition (endogenous) and nothing to do with reactive depression as you have said

pixie - JSP's word "despair" is one that's fallen out of use these days. It's a better descriptor for what you feel in grief, can be alleviated with meds and it passes. That probably applies to PND, too.

dear friend???! Hahaha!

i havent got bipolar.
I've got (diagnosed by a psychiatrist)recurrent Depression and anxiety triggered originally at the age 0f 29 by PND.

ffs another fucking link to dm - is it to up the number of hits they get

Winston Churchill suffered severe depression throughout his life. He called it his 'black dog'

he also owned a minature black poodle called Rufus

How do you know the article is a load of crap though? People do tend to say "i'm feeling a bit depressed" to mean they are feeling a bit down nowadays (at least some of the people I know would). I know if I actually suffered from depression I would hate people saying this as a throwaway comment considering how serious depression is.

Janet SP is an idiot. I might not be depressed next week, she'll still be an idiot! A similar article in Grazia last week more or lress said that depression was nothing more than feeling a bit unhappy, and Sophie Dahl spoke of 'melancholy'. When I was at my most depressed, even bblinking felt like hard work, and I colulden't stop crying. I wasn't interested in being trendy, and it certainly wasn't a fad. Now, 8 years later I still rely on anti-depressants. JSP should keep her mouth shut, she has nothing to say tyhat I want to hear

ok Grace, I get you now! Sorry, I didnt pick up on the sarcasm. Hope you get better soon.

Excellent article.
JSP a knob generall but she has hit the nail on the head there.

In every way.
Most people with so called depression are just feeling a bit low and need for some strange reason to pathologise it.

They forget that this thing called life has its downs as well as its ups.

I would seriously like to deport the daft bint from Yorkshire. JSP if ou're reading this, bugger off down south.

Grrrrr. She proper gets on my tits with all the twaddle she spouts. She needs a kick in the fanny

Its called an article, not a scientific paper.

at 'kick in the fanny'

depression doesnt positively discriminate anyone.this misplaced notion of pull self together/what does she have to moan about is fundamental misunderstanding

depression,mood disorders one of are most common reasons to see gp

however depression is a very treatable illness .support,listening,good nutrition,activity,exercise,AD if required

no one should be berated for mood disorder.it is not a trendy affectation