Blog postage

As we've progressed into our "depression, death, greif" unit in psych, I've been noticing myself rediscovering my old intrests in those notorious mental diseases, depression, anxiety, phobias. I was reading some articles recently on depression and how it effects kids our age. It's pretty straight forward, "depression effects EVERYTHING in your normal life." I know this to be true, being someone that has suffered from depression since I was about 9 (uncontrolable curiosity leads to self diagnosis). But one thing I didn't like about any of these articles was that they all seemed to take the side that depression is basically a ticking time bomb, an uncontrolable delayed death sentance. *rolls eyes* hellooo? still alive and kicking here! I'm not fond of these articles telling people that depression is like cancer. That it claims helpless youths every year all over our contry. The truth is, I don't think the depression is at fault. Sure, if the depression gets severe enough, it might lead to suicide, no doubt about that, but if you get a cold and don't do anything about it, that might kill you too won't it? The only point I'm trying to make is that depression isn't this big ugly ravenous monster that we seem to portray it as. It's completely diagnosable, treatable, and a lot of times curable. So yeah, that's my rant on depression. The thing I hope you take from this is that, if you see someone suffering from depression, act on it, don't just watch them fall alone.