Don't let anyone tell you its not natural. Imagine what the world would be like if the only emotion you could experience was happy.Human society
would collapse in no time. It requires people to get angry, get depressed to achieve anything.
Is Depression Natural?, page 1
reply posted on 24-1-2013 @ 05:30 PM by caladonea
reply to post by Ralphy
If a person has from time to time (circumstantial depression); and most people do; that is normal. Circumstantial depression happens by situations or happenings in a person's life that have gone wrong.
Then there is (clinical depression) which is a medical illness.
So the answer to your question (Is depression natural?)...yes it is...if it is (circumstantial depression).
If a person has from time to time (circumstantial depression); and most people do; that is normal. Circumstantial depression happens by situations or happenings in a person's life that have gone wrong.
Then there is (clinical depression) which is a medical illness.
So the answer to your question (Is depression natural?)...yes it is...if it is (circumstantial depression).
edit on 24-1-2013 by caladonea because: Correct Puntuation
reply posted on 24-1-2013 @ 05:47 PM by ANOK
Originally posted by metalholic
It's lack of dopemine and other brain chemicals that induce euphoria.
Also low levels of serotonin.
Those chemicals also help to keep nerves calm which is why depression, anxiety, and pain often appear together.
People with chronic pain have three times the average risk of developing psychiatric symptoms — usually mood or anxiety disorders — and depressed patients have three times the average risk of developing chronic pain.
Also
In somatoform disorders, including hypochondria, according to one theory, depression and anxiety are converted into physical symptoms. But often, when low energy, insomnia, and hopelessness resulting from depression and anxiety perpetuate and aggravate physical pain, it becomes almost impossible to tell which came first or where one leaves off and the other begins.
www.health.harvard.edu...
This is why it's hard for people with pain disorders, such as Fibromyalgia, to get diagnosed because Dr's often assume it's being caused by their depression/anxiety. This is the problem I have had for years, I have always been convinced my depression/anxiety was being caused by my physical problems, not the other way around.
edit on 1/24/2013 by ANOK because: (no reason given)
reply posted on 24-1-2013 @ 05:50 PM by kudegras
reply to post by Ralphy
I think it is natural but I am now tending to believe that the artificial additives in foods may play a role.
I will tell you why.
In 2006 I had according to the doctor a slight breakdown, I had worked nightshift for 2 years and went on day shift for about 6 months. I was asked to go back to nightshift and my first shift was a 6pm start on a Sunday night having worked until 3.30 the Friday preceding.
A shortened weekend which shouldn't have been a drama however upon getting to work I found my hands locked to the steering wheel and a compulsion to run away. Which is weird I then started sobbing and drove off in the car, I drove approximately 250 kilometres from work and at some point I had regained composure and rang my wife.
This was close to 10pm that night.
She said come home and we'll see the doctor the next day.
Which we did and I was diagnosed with depression and put on anti depressants, I wasn't allowed to work or drive a car for about 6 months where I then started the process of weening off and working part time again.
I had another incident in 2010, this time I was tested for food allergies, I had lost 15 kg's in weight and all my joints were aching, after a few tests I was diagnosed as a Celiac and have to now stay gluten free.
The thing is my body had been starving of nutrients for quite some time which no doubt led to the depression in 2006 and then the weight loss in 2010 was the kicker.
There are so many additives in food these days and no-one knows how they will affect our bodies, depression can be food related and it can be caused by a traumatic event or experience, some people are very sensitive and take all the misery in and eventually become depressed about it.
In other instances depression can run through family lines which means it could be hereditary and therefore natural, the good thing is people are now understanding mental illness better and they dont throw people into institutions anymore without first looking at all the possibilities.
I think it is natural but I am now tending to believe that the artificial additives in foods may play a role.
I will tell you why.
In 2006 I had according to the doctor a slight breakdown, I had worked nightshift for 2 years and went on day shift for about 6 months. I was asked to go back to nightshift and my first shift was a 6pm start on a Sunday night having worked until 3.30 the Friday preceding.
A shortened weekend which shouldn't have been a drama however upon getting to work I found my hands locked to the steering wheel and a compulsion to run away. Which is weird I then started sobbing and drove off in the car, I drove approximately 250 kilometres from work and at some point I had regained composure and rang my wife.
This was close to 10pm that night.
She said come home and we'll see the doctor the next day.
Which we did and I was diagnosed with depression and put on anti depressants, I wasn't allowed to work or drive a car for about 6 months where I then started the process of weening off and working part time again.
I had another incident in 2010, this time I was tested for food allergies, I had lost 15 kg's in weight and all my joints were aching, after a few tests I was diagnosed as a Celiac and have to now stay gluten free.
The thing is my body had been starving of nutrients for quite some time which no doubt led to the depression in 2006 and then the weight loss in 2010 was the kicker.
There are so many additives in food these days and no-one knows how they will affect our bodies, depression can be food related and it can be caused by a traumatic event or experience, some people are very sensitive and take all the misery in and eventually become depressed about it.
In other instances depression can run through family lines which means it could be hereditary and therefore natural, the good thing is people are now understanding mental illness better and they dont throw people into institutions anymore without first looking at all the possibilities.
reply posted on 24-1-2013 @ 06:17 PM by LesMisanthrope
reply to post by Ralphy
Everything in the universe is natural.
Do you think depression is natural in this life?
Everything in the universe is natural.
reply posted on 24-1-2013 @ 08:34 PM by LesMisanthrope
reply to post by ANOK
Maybe I'm being a little too philosophical on the subject, but everything that happens in the universe does so naturally. Considering ourselves as separate from what goes on in the universe is a contradiction. We, and everything we create, are a natural occurrence.
I understand that 'natural' can be defined as everything not caused by humankind, but in order to do so we'd have to pretend we are not a part of nature.
I would have to say that depression—because it comes from a natural entity and within what we call nature—is a natural occurrence.
How are you defining natural?
Capitalism isn't natural. Murder isn't either. Corn grown in the US isn't natural. Corn grown in Europe isn't natural either. If I were to stick a needle in your brain causing depression, that wouldn't be natural.
Maybe I'm being a little too philosophical on the subject, but everything that happens in the universe does so naturally. Considering ourselves as separate from what goes on in the universe is a contradiction. We, and everything we create, are a natural occurrence.
I understand that 'natural' can be defined as everything not caused by humankind, but in order to do so we'd have to pretend we are not a part of nature.
I would have to say that depression—because it comes from a natural entity and within what we call nature—is a natural occurrence.
reply posted on 24-1-2013 @ 10:31 PM by marg6043
reply to post by Ralphy
Yes, is natural, we as human have the ability to feel, in the long list of feelings depression and sadness in one of them.
Is nothing wrong to feel like that as long as it doesn't take away from our everyday life and doesn't affect our well being.
Usually as with everything it will go away on its own, but when it last longer that we thing is right, or take over our lives then we have a problem.
I personally has been feeling down for a few weeks, right now, but I know that is just the season and temporarily as I still have the ability to feel happy about things so this down feelings are not taken over my life.
Yes, is natural, we as human have the ability to feel, in the long list of feelings depression and sadness in one of them.
Is nothing wrong to feel like that as long as it doesn't take away from our everyday life and doesn't affect our well being.
Usually as with everything it will go away on its own, but when it last longer that we thing is right, or take over our lives then we have a problem.
I personally has been feeling down for a few weeks, right now, but I know that is just the season and temporarily as I still have the ability to feel happy about things so this down feelings are not taken over my life.
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