yeah, I push back against this a lot, sometimes on Twitter. Even crotchety old Freud was aware of this, and called it "gain of illness": now you have a new identity you can enjoy. what would you be without "your depression"? nothing, I guess.I do think the cultural atmosphere of medical expertise and diagnosis can, in the mind of the lay patient, reify the very ailment/condition that the diagnosis posits, which in turn bolsters the whole industrial complex.
this one is a new one for me, but i like it slightly better, because it shifts the position of the subject: "my" anxiety implies it's something that you "possess" whereas "the" anxiety places you "further back", as an observer, so you can gain some empirical evidence about your problems and do something to fix it.That's something that's actively pushed back against in some forms of therapy. You're told you aren't whatever issue you're being treated for and that you should think of it as something separate, "the anxiety" rather than "my anxiety".
what would you be without "your depression"? nothing, I guess.
without their depression, they'd have to take personal responsibility for the fact that they just spent a month doing nothing. this is a hard pill to swallow, a lot harder than prozac, speaking from experience.really? does even the most depressed person really think there's nothing to them except the condition? do they not have a notion that there might be a self without the symptoms that might be capable of doing something other than being depressed? this seems like a step to far into the dark side to me.
i'd consider it a month well spent if it resulted in me being less / not depressed at the end of it myselfwithout their depression, they'd have to take personal responsibility for the fact that they just spent a month doing nothing. this is a hard pill to swallow, a lot harder than prozac, speaking from experience.
from there it can really go both ways, don't you think?without their depression, they'd have to take personal responsibility for the fact that they just spent a month doing nothing. this is a hard pill to swallow, a lot harder than prozac, speaking from experience.
to give a different answer, looking instead at the "nothing to them" rather than the "depression": one of the big causes of depression is the creation of a "fantasy" or "imagined" self, which you believe you are (creating grandiosity), and then occasionally fail to live up to, shattering your self-image (causing depression). think "gifted kid syndrome". because it feels like one's whole self is shattered when the veneer of the image fails, it can absolutely feel during a depressive episode that there is "no self there" -- and they may be right (temporarily), to the extent that you are what you doreally? does even the most depressed person really think there's nothing to them except the condition? do they not have a notion that there might be a self without the symptoms that might be capable of doing something other than being depressed? this seems like a step to far into the dark side to me.
good point as they reckon all-or-nothing is a habit of depressive thought, don't theyfrom there it can really go both ways, don't you think?
a common method would be to splice it up into smaller chunks of time/smaller responsibilities so every possible defeat feels a little less significant and less demotivating
Alright, Donald Trump.The chemical you squirt up your nose works and so does pseudoephedrine. Or works for me in any case.
This is what I had at the pub in Beeston during an all day session, made me feel unwell
Police, doctors, politicians, landlordsthis one is the biggest pisstake.
oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) – this is defined by negative and disruptive behaviour, particularly towards authority figures, such as parents and teachers