Yeah, my attitude is: if this world * doesn't* make you sad/afraid/angry/mad then you ARE crazy. Who in their right mind could see the distressing things we see in the news/ know the lies that are being told in public life/see the discrepancy in services provided for different areas,income brackets and be content?
I get very cross though at what passes for treatment in the U.K.. We found our mental hospitals to be unwieldy and not conducive to recovery so closed some and went to the jolly old " care in the community" place; okay if people stick to the programme.
I get depressed and I would be scared quite frankly to go to a doc. about it. I have read too much online to see how little faith people have in their treatment; and how women can if not careful, or * used* to be, seen as merely neurotic,the most helpful advice is indeed to hope you " luck out" (I think someone wrote) to find a good therapist, or, as I've read, get a good * fit* for you, as in the right sized shoe.
My Dad had Manic Depression, sorry bipolar, and it terrified me, he had split with my Mum when I was 10, but then, he *had* lived through the war in Poland and apparently his Dad pulled a gun on his mother, Dad was a colonel.
I am always on the look out for treatments/ideas to help me and others deal with their baggage. I'm sad that Freud was by all accounts a victim himself of sexual abuse and ploughed denial and that experience into his style of diagnosis. Jung, I like but I can't see analyzing my dreams constantly being of enough help.
I tried ginkgo biloba, a natural product, to help with S.A.D. and it did rev. me up but when I tapered it off owing to financial considerations I slipped into a depressed valley for what felt like days so this worried me.
I appreciate peoples' humility and honesty on this fourm group, I really do.
