MNHQ I am stropping (again) re a "feeling depressed" topic

[MerlinsBeard]

Please can we have a "Feeling Depressed" topic. I know that depression is a mental health issue BUT i feel that for those days when we feel a bit down in the dumps or could do with a little lift that we need a topic a little less serious. Also, a lot of people don't feel comfortable with the mental health "label" - myself included! I also wonder if people in need of support that they can't or won't find in RL would find it there before it does become a mental health issue.

If you can separate products into different categories and split special needs down(so that now i don't know where to post my questions - thanks), surely bringing this back is simples?

dont call it the 'depressed' topic.....this is a term bandied around too easily. true depression isnt feeling down in the dumps/low....its real,and you need a proper diagnosis for true depression

sorry,this is a huge bugbear of mine...

But "feeling depressed" is a sort of how long is a bit of string thing, isn't it?

It could range from a poster feeling a bit low and having a bad day, to a poster suffering from severe long term clinical depression and badly in need of help. Both could equally claim to be "feeling depressed".

So while I see your point, and agree that there maybe should be sub sections within mental health, I don't think "feeling depressed" as a topic will really do what you want.

I did do what i wanted and they got rid of it.

IT did not I did

Yes I think you need to keep "depressed" out of it - the whole issue is confused enough as it is and new users could easily think it was a genuine depression topic.

What we need is a "Just need to moan" topic

Yes, "Just need to moan" is good. Or "Rant Time". Or "I am fed up because..."

Or just have a Moaners' Corner, like the ones for flouncers and pedants. I would be in there all the time

Can't it just go in Chat -why does it need a special gloomy thread ? most people look at the Chat threads anyway and are bound to join in

I never did quite understand why the feeling depressed topic went, as someone who has frequently felt depressed. Somehow Mental Health makes it feel a bigger thing somehow.

Noah, that's what i was trying to say but you said it so much better!

and we will need an 'i am ecstatically happy' topic to counteract the negativity and gloominess of the 'feeling low' topic too

Momofmonsters I am glad we seem to be on the saem wavelength .

I think because I suffer on and off with depression I feel like it is just a word like a cold or something. But Mental Health (especially with capital letters - no idea why) starts making me think of men in white coats. Very silly as they are just words too of course.

Can we have banners and things like the people campaigning for the Friday night topic?

Please, not a "having a rant" topic - that will be misinterpreted and end up being another AIBU.

I don't favour "having a moan" either - I feel it will attract people who will tell the OP to pull themselves together.

As someone who frequently used to post under feeling depressed, I know what I wanted was a sympathetic ear, a chance to wallow a bit, maybe with people who had been through similar. It may well be we need to buck up and get on with things, but somehow that is not helpful to be told that and I foresee a lot of hurt if the wrong title is picked and the wrong posters attracted.

I would like the topic to be called something like "feeling low". I might go back to posting in it then, though hopefully only as a responder, not as the OP.