My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
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Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#31. Define depression.
2.Who doesn't.
3. no it doesn't run in your family.
4. There is no such thing as chemical imbalace that causes depression.
5. It's your own responsibility to fix it.
6. Stop glorifying it.
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#4I think I have that, how did he treat it?
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#5I think I have that, how did he treat it?
An (unspecified) antidepressant and self-care, apparently.
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#6I encourage everyone to consider finding time for this lecture on depression: https://youtu.be/TIcf-2AFHgw
It helped me frame what depression the disease is compared to our broad usage of the word in everyday contexts. In particular it describes both the biology and psychology of depression.
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#71. Define depression. 2.Who doesn't. 3. no it doesn't run in your family. 4. There is no such thing as chemical imbalace that causes depression. 5. It's your own responsibility to fix it. 6. Stop glorifying it.
Are you a doctor? Or just some random person who was sad once and believes they knows everything about depression now? You're a real piece of work.
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#8Here is a terrible awful fact most people are unaware of: The suicide rate has been going up steadily since 2000 and we are back where we were in the mid 1980s[1]. I found this out by listening to a speech from a mental health convention where the doctor giving the speech was blasting the commonly held idea that antidepressants had solved everything.
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/22/4748888...
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#9That must have been difficult to write, but it was also difficult to read. I don't think he needed to lash-out at the adults who didn't understand his illness; how was a director in a weekly TV show meant to diagnose and accommodate depression when he's handling dozens of people to a tight schedule?
Its the same in any context of work, unfortunately. You're just a cog and if the cog jams, add more oil or replace it. That's probably not something a teenager would have understood, hence his frustrated efforts to find answers from adults he held in regard, and I don't know what the solution is. But sniping isn't it.
I am glad that Mr Wheaton is in a better condition and hopefully this essay will help others, but it seemed unnecessarily cruel in places.
Re: My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
#10I encourage everyone to consider finding time for this lecture on depression: https://youtu.be/TIcf-2AFHgw It helped me frame what depression the disease is compared to our broad usage of the word in everyday contexts. In particular it describes both the biology and psychology of depression.
I absolutely adore Sapolsky, and suggest everyone also listen/watch his human behavioral biology lectures. They were infinitely more interesting to me than my intro to psyc class, and perhaps more informative.