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Tim Chevalier ([personal profile] tim) wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2013-01-17 06:58 pm (UTC)

As someone with 21 years of experience with depression, I also want to point out that blaming "depression" in a vacuum isn't always useful -- as with any disability, depression can be more or less disabling depending on what expectations get imposed on the person experiencing it. If we weren't expected to be "productive" for capitalism all the time, being a person who has periods of non-productivity might be less traumatic. I mean that the anxiety and fear over how long this is going to last and whether it will result in going hungry at some point would be less of an issue; social accommodations wouldn't make depression itself less painful, of course.

Also, when depressed people get targeted specifically because it's obvious that they are less able to deal with stress, it's not just depression that's to blame and we need to change more than just providing better therapy.

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