Clinical Depression.

[swestrup]

I just read an interesting pair of articles on Kuro5hin about clinical depression. Here's Part 1 and Part 2. I found reading the articles from the point of someone who has dealt with clinical depression and beaten it to be interesting. On the other hand, I'm not about to take what he says as gospel. After all, I've been through 'burnout' a number of times, and it (for me) had none of the symptoms of Clinical Depression he lists, despite his claim that they are one and the same thing.

Comments

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Burnout does not equal clinical depression, not at all. Burnout can be alleviated by a change out of the situation on which one is burned. Such action won't work on depression.

[ims.livejournal.com]

I found the article rather interesting, and I wonder how correct it is. If it is basically right, it explains a lot about the rather lazy lifestyle I have adopted (despite my own disapproval of it): it was probably necessary for recovery from depression. My own recovery, of course, took a very long time, perhaps because I had to discover thow to do it by trial and error. Always assuming he's right...

What rings false to me about it (though it's rather central to his explanation) is the matter of sleep. I never had much trouble sleeping even when at my most depressed (though I know this is unusual). Indeed, if anything I slept even more.