tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post252002344296252438..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Modern 'depression' (and 'bipolar disorder') is not an illness; more a personality typeBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64110669728755273612015-06-08T00:57:28.996+01:002015-06-08T00:57:28.996+01:00I don't know. You seem right, but I am not a p...I don't know. You seem right, but I am not a professional... Only my experience for what is worth (which could very well be nothing): <br /><br />I have suffered for "depression" for all my life. When I was dumped by my fiancee (who I loved more than words can express), my depression reached very high levels. Completely depressed, I accepted to be medicated. Only for some months. This was about 8 years ago. <br /><br />I could be wrong but it seems to me that this caused a permanent change in my brain. I used to be a "bipolar", alternating euphoria, normal happiness with depression. Now, I only have depression but the joy I used to have sometimes has disappeared. This is well after I forgot my fiancee and resume normal living. I don't know if this was because of antidepressants but I really regret it.<br /><br />I second Bill about the usefulness of the Psalms. My favorite part of the Bible. When you are in the dark, the Psalms are your light. I tell my prayer group that the Psalms are the "chocolates" of the Bible. Delicious.Imnobodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-75858721186206014212015-06-07T21:12:23.813+01:002015-06-07T21:12:23.813+01:00@S - Melancholia is not a personality type in the ...@S - Melancholia is not a personality type in the psychiatric historical sense I refer to. Melancholia as a personality - as in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy - refers very generally to any form of under-active state or trait - contrasted with the ravings of a maniac (who probably was not manic, but some in kind of toxic or infective state). Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48077216080583075862015-06-07T19:33:56.380+01:002015-06-07T19:33:56.380+01:00Wow, is not the otherwise*****
Melancholia is a p...Wow, is not the otherwise*****<br /><br />Melancholia is a personality (which are very common among geniuses, at least what many say) and depression is a extreme personality or proto-mental disease, when dualistic % among ''positive'' and ''negative'' traits are broken to negative traits. <br /><br />Depressive people generally will be the ones with normal personalities and technic intelligences while melancholic will be the ones with unusual personalities and intelectual (intrapersonal) intelligences. <br /><br />I'm melancholic, yes, i already had suicide ideations but like Sartre said ''the hell are the others''. Indeed. Life would be ''more easy'' without human stupidity.<br /><br />SantocultoSantocultonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-34497603918996265062015-06-07T17:37:28.397+01:002015-06-07T17:37:28.397+01:00Pretty spot-on. I went to a therapist for a few mo...Pretty spot-on. I went to a therapist for a few months, because one cannot ignore everybody forever (they get quite cross), and was diagnosed with dysthymia.<br /><br />It did not go anywhere. Whatever positive advice she had, I had richer resources from the Psalms to Heidegger. I tried to engage on that level, because when else do I get the opportunity? No dice, though. I wouldn't hear of a psychiatric referral, and left when my insurance deductible renewed itself on the turning of the calendar. <br /><br />The only advantage was that, since she was paid to listen, I felt free to complain without reservation. Such an arrangement should be temporary. <br /><br />-BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52960436882223665552015-06-07T14:42:16.270+01:002015-06-07T14:42:16.270+01:00"I am under pressure to get diagnosed with so..."I am under pressure to get diagnosed with some sort of disorder because my behaviour does not find favour with those around me. The amateur diagnosis so far have included autism,depression and ADD. My parents just say I am lazy and lack normal motivation and self discipline. I think I am unattractive physically and personally but not unkind. Trying to relate all this to my christian interests is also very confusing as I prefer the company of non religious people on the whole. I enjoy mainly solitary pursuits and avoid company whenever possible although I don't think of myself as misanthropic in general. My dilemma is whether to pursue medical diagnosis or do I just need some coaching to be more acceptable to others? "<br /><br />My advice is to avoid professional psychiatric intervention, since on average is is a disaster - unless you want to feel worse and spend your life dependent on a drug (or several drugs) which reduce your effectiveness and make you miserable. <br /><br />Read Anatomy of an epidemic - by Robert Whitaker.<br /><br />For self-help psychiatry<br /><br />http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/self-diagnosis-self-treatment-and-self.html <br /><br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com