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A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by sgt101 »

zepto wrote: post #7

Depression is not caused by a deficiency of medications, but by a deficiency of hope, so medications cannot cure it.

Depression is a label for a wide range of complex illnesses. I am sure that what you say is true for some people, but in some cases it simply isn't. I've got friends who have been helped by medications, and I've got friends who have tried medication and it didn't help. One thing that is counter productive is to assert that these medications don't work ever, because they do appear to be extremely effective in some cases. Which figuratively and factually is a life saver.

Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by douche »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

"nearly 1 in 4 white women ages 50 to 64 is taking an antidepressant, according to federal health officials." This is the saddest thing. My wife remarked that there was a weird sense of expectancy that if you were a white female of middle age you were expected by your peers to be taking anti-depressants.

Out of the other 3 in 4, how many are self-medicating with something else?

Coincidently, my mother has three sisters, and all of them are in this age range. Two are on antidepressants. Two of them drink a bottle or two of wine a day. There is some overlap there.

Mother's little helper...

Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by bnjms »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9
DanBC wrote: post #6

> according to a Washington Post analysis of federal health data. I wish they'd released this.

Ask them to. EDIT: I just emailed the article author asking if they'd release the data in a Github repo [1]. Default to action. [1] https://github.com/washingtonpost

[1]. Default to action.

There is a maxim worth adopting.

Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by clarry »

bnjms wrote: post #13
toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ask them to. EDIT: I just emailed the article author asking if they'd release the data in a Github repo [1]. Default to action. [1] https://github.com/washingtonpost

[1]. Default to action. There is a maxim worth adopting.

That is one way to end up with too much to do.

Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by zepto »

sgt101 wrote: post #11
zepto wrote: post #7

Depression is not caused by a deficiency of medications, but by a deficiency of hope, so medications cannot cure it.

Depression is a label for a wide range of complex illnesses. I am sure that what you say is true for some people, but in some cases it simply isn't. I've got friends who have been helped by medications, and I've got friends who have tried medication and it didn't help. One thing that is counter productive is to assert that these medications don't work ever, because they do appear to be extremely effective in some cas…

You aren't responding to what I actually said.

I didn't say medications doesn't help some people. I didn't say medications don't help ever.

I did say that medications can't cure depression.

Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by zepto »

savanaly wrote: post #8
zepto wrote: post #7

Depression is not caused by a deficiency of medications, but by a deficiency of hope, so medications cannot cure it.

Source.

If you can provide a source showing either that a deficiency of medication is the cause of depression, or that medications do cure depression, then I will provide a source.

Re: A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

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Post by throwanem »

cowardlydragon wrote: post #18

Women aren't the demographic with a suicide problem in that age range... But my compassion is gone after the election.

If all it takes to destroy your compassion is losing an election, you never cared to begin with. You only claimed you did.
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